Moses PBUH

The story of Moses - peace be upon him - from birth until the exodus from Egypt

What is the lineage of Moses - peace be upon him?

He is Moses, son of Imran, son of Yizhar, son of Qahath, son of Levi, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Levi was born to Jacob when he was eighty-nine years old, and Qahath was born to Levi when he was forty-six years old, and Yizhar was born to Qahath, and Imran was born to Yizhar when he was sixty years old, and his total age was one hundred and thirty years.

The state of the Children of Israel before the birth of Moses - peace be upon him -

When God Almighty took Joseph, peace be upon him, and the king who was with him (who ruled Egypt at the time of Joseph) perished, and the Pharaohs inherited the kingdom of Egypt, and God spread the Children of Israel, the Children of Israel remained under the control of the Pharaohs, until the Pharaoh of Moses, who was the most rebellious of them against God, the most severe in speech, and the longest-lived, and his name, as mentioned, was Al-Walid bin Mus`ab, and he was a bad judge of the Children of Israel, torturing them, making them slaves, and subjecting them to the worst torture.

What was the religion of the Children of Israel before the birth of Moses?

They were on the remnants of the religion of Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham.

What was the vision that Pharaoh saw before Moses was born and what was its effect?

Pharaoh saw in his dream that a fire came from Jerusalem until it encompassed the houses of Egypt, burning the Copts and leaving the Children of Israel, and destroying the houses of Egypt. So he called the magicians and priests and asked them about his dream. They said: There will come out of this country, meaning Jerusalem, from which the Children of Israel came, a man whose face will be the destruction of Egypt. So he ordered that no child be born to the Children of Israel except that he be slaughtered and the female be left.

What did Pharaoh's astrologers say to Pharaoh before Moses was born?

When the time of Moses drew near, Pharaoh's astrologers came to him and said: Know that we find in our knowledge that a newborn from the Children of Israel has come to you at the time of his birth who will take away your kingdom, overpower you in your authority, and change your religion. So he ordered the killing of every newborn from the Children of Israel.

Who was named Moses by this name and why?

Moses was named because he was found in water and trees, and water in Coptic is Mo, and trees are Sa.

What did Pharaoh's elite convey about the news of the birth of a new prophet for the children of Israel?

Pharaoh and his companions discussed together what God Almighty had promised Abraham, that He would make prophets and kings among his descendants. Some of them said: The Children of Israel are waiting for that, and they thought it was Joseph, son of Jacob. But when he died, they said: This is not what God promised Abraham. Pharaoh said: How do you see? So they agreed that he would send men to kill every newborn among the Children of Israel. He said to the Copts: Look at your slaves who work outside, and bring them in and let the Children of Israel do that, So he made the Children of Israel work for their young men, and that is when God Almighty says: “Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and divided its people into factions, weakening a group of them and slaughtering their children.” So he made it so that no child was born to the Children of Israel except that he slaughtered them. He ordered that pregnant women be tortured until they gave birth. He would split reeds and make women stand on them and cut off their feet, and the woman would give birth and protect her child from the reeds. God cast death into the elders of the Children of Israel, so the heads of the Copts went to Pharaoh and spoke to him, and they said: “Indeed, death has befallen these people, and soon the work will befall our young men, you slaughter the young and destroy the old. If you wrote to leave some of their children, then he ordered them to slaughter one year and leave another year. So in that year in which they left, Aaron was born, and Moses was born in the year in which they were killed, which is the next year.

And this is Almighty says 

نَتْلُو عَلَيْكَ مِن نَّبَإِ مُوسَىٰ وَفِرْعَوْنَ بِالْحَقِّ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ (3) إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًا يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَائِفَةً مِّنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيِي نِسَاءَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ (4) وَنُرِيدُ أَن نَّمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوَارِثِينَ (5) وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَنُرِيَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ

We recite to you from the news of Moses and Pharaoh in truth for a people who believe. (3) Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a party of them, slaughtering their sons and keeping their women alive. Indeed, he was of the corrupters. (4) And We desired to bestow a favor upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them leaders and make them inheritors. (5) And We established them in the land and showed Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers from them that which they had been fearing.

We recite to you from the news of Moses and Pharaoh in truth for a people who believe (3)

We recite to you, O Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, from the story of Moses. When was Surat Al-Qasas revealed to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace? It was revealed to him, especially the last verses in it, before he left Mecca to migrate to Medina. He was riding, so the conclusion of Surat Al-Qasas was revealed. Why? To console the Master of Prophets, Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace - from what he saw from the Quraysh and from changing the ordeal with a new ordeal in another form in Medina, even if the believers were empowered, Allah the Blessed and the Exalted guided us to something important in this verse: He says the truth: And does Allah the Blessed and the Exalted say a lie? - I seek Allah's forgiveness - of course not, but He wants to draw our attention to the verbal ramblings that we call in the vernacular the salt and pepper of speech, which is more or less than the truth, and you are an expert: Someone tells you a story and you told it to your mother, for example, so she told it to your aunt, and in turn she told it to her son, and you met her son the next day and he told you the story as if you did not know it, even though you, you are the one who told it, does it reach you as you said it? Impossible... This is human nature, events are transmitted by the narrator's imagination, Allah the Blessed and the Exalted will tell you the true news, no more and no less, just be sure of that, and this is not for people who disbelieve in the God of the heavens, rather this talk is exclusive to believers, because they are the ones who understand from Allah and no one else.

Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and divided its people into factions, oppressing a party of them, slaughtering their sons,

It came in the story above

And leave their women alive 

What's the problem with that? Any Pharaoh is high on earth but he leaves women without torturing or killing them. The truth is that he used to torture those who were pregnant. for a woman is to have Qaim. So who is the Qaim? The Qaim of the people: the one who takes care of their affairs and manages their matters. And no matter how important a woman is in a society, she needs someone to take care of her affairs, defend her, and manage her matters.

Indeed, he was among the corrupters

Who says that about him: God Almighty, and every great person speaks from his own mind. So God, in His glory, said that Pharaoh was one of the corruptors: so he was one of the most corruptors on earth.

And We wanted to bestow a favor upon those who were oppressed in the land

Manna: A gift without compensation. Who would Allah Almighty grant them a gift without compensation? The oppressed. Are the oppressed the weak? No, but the letter seen, as we know from the origins of the Arabic language, is that whatever is added to the structure increases the meaning, inevitably. So they were not weak originally, and Pharaoh oppressed them. But why does Allah decree weakness for some believers? Then He bestows His favor upon them? And Allah knows best what He intends for His servants? Life is based on testing and harm from people to each other, and the outcome is for the righteous.

And We will make them leaders and make them inheritors (5)

Imams after the oppression? Inheritors of the land after being expelled and killed? And after how many years will this empowerment happen? The truth is no less than 40 years or more, Moses was not born yet, and he will grow up and receive the message at 40 years old as is the custom of the messengers and prophets, and after that he will treat the children of Israel and their love for life with all its humiliation and disgrace until he raises them to much greater and deeper horizons that transcend all this life and what is in it, that is, a completely different generation is the one who will reach empowerment, and what is the fault of the oppressed generation then? Life is a cycle, whoever is pleased with one time will be displeased by other times, and whoever lives a long life will see wonders, the poor of yesterday are the rich of today, and vice versa is true, and the weak of yesterday are the ones in control today, this is life, one day for you and 10 against you.

And We established them in the land and showed Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers from them that which they had been fearing.

Empowerment of Muslims is coming, but it is not now. What is your job as a Muslim until empowerment comes to the oppressed Muslims? Your job: to stand on the side of truth, sometimes by supplication such as (O Allah, bestow Your favor upon those who were oppressed among the Muslims in the East and West of the earth and make them leaders and make them inheritors and establish them in Your land ) Including donations, warning people about their just cause, and other things you know and we do not know... Do not forget your brothers in China who are being re-educated in huge camps. Do not forget your brothers stuck on the borders in open prisons simply because they wanted to escape from hell. O God, bestow Your blessings upon our oppressed Muslim brothers everywhere and preserve what remains for us of this nation.

The birth of the weak infant Moses, the future leader of the Israelites

As we said before: You remain inactive and nothing is known about you for a while, who is the mother of Moses among all the children of Israel? She is a weak, poor woman living in the ruins of the children of Israel in Egypt, even God Almighty - did not mention her name, but mentioned the mother of Moses, just because she was a strong believer in that historical period full of torment, and historical periods full of torment divide people into several categories: true believers and their attachment to God increases, disbelievers: Even if they were former believers, doubters, they are not true believers, but they doubt the promise of God Almighty. Moses’ mother was from the group of believers who were sincere in their faith, so her reward was that she was from the Children of Israel, and God Almighty immortalized her memory among Muslims, in the final book (the Holy Quran), indicating that God Almighty does not forget His righteous servants. It does not matter what brand you wear, it does not matter what palace you live in, it does not matter at all, but the most important thing is that she is a believer. As for the external appearances, they will come, but in heaven. The strangest thing is that they came to this woman a little while later when she breastfed her son in their palaces while they were unaware.

God Almighty said

And We inspired the mother of Moses, "Suckle him; but when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear and do not grieve. Indeed, We will return him to you and make him one of the messengers." (7)

How did Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, inspire Moses' mother? Was she a prophet? No, there are no female prophets at all in the history of the heavenly religions, but the revelation in the Quran came in several forms: the descent of our master Gabriel with the revelation, casting into the mind: like Moses' mother - instinct: like the revelation to the bees and so on... You, you, if you are transparent in instinct, you may have left your home and while you are at the door of the car you remember that you left things on the fire, so you return quickly and Allah protects your home and the neighbors' home , this is a type of inspiration and it is from the help of the angels unless fate descends, and Allah is Most High and All-Knowing.

So if you fear for him, then cast him into the river.

And this is what happened: Is this an equation, if we fear poverty, for example, we take out the money we have? The truth is that there are no fixed equations in this life, life changes as scientific theories change, but if God Almighty is the one who said it, then how can there be denial?

And do not fear and do not grieve

Who is telling this weak woman not to fear for her son from an unknown fate, and not to be sad about his separation? God Almighty, excuse me, who is Moses' mother that God Almighty would mean all this to her? What kind of her faith do I mean? Allah Almighty does not want you to be afraid or sad, and you, you left your son under the rubble? Do not be afraid and do not be sad, your son was taken from you by force: Do not be afraid and do not be sad, the question here is: Is your faith comparable to the faith of Moses' mother? If it was, then fear and sadness are not characteristics of believers, fear for the future and sadness for the past were in our hands and were taken from us, and Allah Almighty says in more than one place (If Allah knows in your hearts any good, He will give you better than what was taken from you and forgive you), but is it my own flesh and blood who was taken from me? Allah knows that very well, and tomorrow we will meet our loved ones, it is not much, life is speeding us up to the point of suicide.

Indeed, We will return him to you and make him one of the messengers

And We will return him to you with Tajweed (6 vowels) meaning, rest assured, he will return, he will return to your embrace, and not only that, but he will be a leader.

The story in detail

When she gave birth to him, she breastfed him, then called a carpenter, who made him a coffin, put the key of the coffin inside, put it in it, and threw it into the sea. When he disappeared from her, Satan came to her, and she said to herself: What have I done to myself? If he were slaughtered here and I hid him and shrouded him, it would be more beloved to me than to throw him with my own hand to the whales and beasts of the sea. So when she threw him in, she said to his sister - whose name was Maruim- "Follow him" - meaning follow his trace, then she saw him from the side, and they did not realize that she was his sister. Then the waves came with the chest, raising it once and lowering it another time, until they brought it between the trees near Pharaoh’s house. Then the maidservants of Asiya, Pharaoh’s wife, came out to wash themselves, and they found the chest and brought it to Asiya, and they thought that there was money in it, When he opened and Asiya looked at him, mercy fell upon her and she loved him. When she told Pharaoh about him and brought him to him, she said, “A comfort to me and to you. Do not kill him.” Pharaoh said, “He will be yours, but as for me, I have no need of him.” He wanted to slaughter him, but Asiya kept talking to him until he left him to her. He said, “I fear that this one may be one of the Children of Israel and that this one at whose hands he is will be our destruction.” This is what the Almighty said: “So Pharaoh’s family picked him up so that he would become for them an enemy and a grief.

The story of the infant Moses' rejection of all wet nurses

Allah says 

وَحَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْمَرَاضِعَ مِن قَبْلُ فَقَالَتْ هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ يَكْفُلُونَهُ لَكُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُ نَاصِحُونَ (12) فَرَدَدْنَاهُ إِلَىٰ أُمِّهِ كَيْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا تَحْزَنَ وَلِتَعْلَمَ أَنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ (13)

And We had forbidden him wet nurses before, so she said, “Shall I direct you to a family who will take care of him for you and be advice to him?” (12) So We returned him to his mother that her eye might be comforted and she would not grieve and that she would know that the promise of God is truth, but most of them do not know. (13)

And We had forbidden him wet nurses before, so she said, “Shall I direct you to a family who will take care of him for you and be advice to him?” (12)

Who forbade him from wet nurses? God and Himself. Have you ever seen a child refuse wet nurses? It is impossible to feed him something he does not want. Glory be to He who forbade Moses from wet nurses. His sister (Maruim) spoke unconsciously about what was inside her, wanting to return him to her mother. They suspected her and almost imprisoned her if it were not for the cover of God Almighty, because He is the one who wanted this ordeal in the first place.

So We returned him to his mother that her eye might be comforted and she would not grieve

The letter fa indicates speed, and most likely he returned to his mother after 3 days, which is a long period of waiting, but in the events of the great times it is not long. And what is the reason for returning Moses to his mother so that he would be a leader for the children of Israel in old age? No, for the sake of this grieving mother, but there are hundreds, even thousands, whose children were slaughtered before their eyes. Why this weak woman in particular? For her strong faith. We said before: If faith is half patience and the other half must be filled with gratitude, then certainty = all faith. You have weak certainty in God’s promise, doubt your faith and rearrange your calculations. Return the infant to his mother’s embrace, not for her to breastfeed him and preserve the gray area in the brain, because the infant breastfeeds with love along with milk and if he does not find it, he may literally suffer clinical death. No, but to breastfeed the love of the homeland and the love of understanding the just cause of the oppressed at that time, otherwise, who will know that? You can impose your strength, knowledge and science by force, and it will fade away after a little or a lot, with a little love from another party. Love works miracles, so do not rush to advise someone before he loves you, because if he loves you, he will drink everything from you.

The story in detail

They wanted wet nurses for him, but he did not take any of the women. Then his sister Marim said, "Shall I direct you to a household who will take care of him for you and who will be advice to him?" So they took her and said, "How do you know why they advised him? Do they know him?" Until they doubted her and him. She said, "Because of their sincere advice, their compassion for him, their desire to fulfill the king's need, and their hope for his benefit." So she went to his mother and told her the story. Then his mother came, and when she gave him her breast, he took him from her, and she almost said, "This is my son." But Allah protected her, and he was absent from her for three days. Then she took him with her to her home, and Pharaoh adopted him as a son, and he was called the son of Pharaoh.

The story of the reason for Moses’ tongue-knot- peace be upon him -

God Almighty said

 “And untie the knot from my tongue so they may understand my speech"

This came when Moses became 40 years old and God Almighty wanted him to warn his people with His message to the Children of Israel, as if his tongue was tied, and he did not hesitate to deliver the message of the Lord of the Worlds to Pharaoh and his entourage, but rather he feared that he would stutter in speech, and the story was ((So when the boy moved, his mother carried him to Asiya, and she made him dance and play with her and gave him to Pharaoh, and when he took him to him, the boy took hold of his beard and plucked it. Pharaoh said: Ali said to the slaughterers: Do not kill him, perhaps he will be of benefit to us or we will adopt him as a son. He is only a boy who does not understand. He did this out of ignorance. I know that there is no woman in Egypt who has more jewelry than me. I will put on him jewelry of rubies and live coals. If he takes the ruby, he will understand, so slaughter him. But if he takes the live coal, he is only a boy. So she brought out her ruby for him and put on a basin of live coals for him. Gabriel came and put his hand on a live coal, so he took it and Moses threw it into his mouth, and it burned his tongue. He is the one about whom God Almighty says: “And loosen the knot from my tongue that they may understand my speech.” So I averted killing from Moses.

The moral of this story

Do not be sad about temporary painful destinies, these destinies are what expand your path out of the crisis to a spacious life after a long or short time, and what is the evidence for that? Have you found someone in a country where there is no war and his life was comfortable from beginning to end and nothing happened to him during his life? Yes, it happened and is happening, and what happened after that: Either he died suddenly or something terrifying happened to him that ended his life or something else, as for what diminishes you, small, it is small because God Almighty has another matter with you, you escaped from this and that...

The story of the Coptic murder

Moses grew up and became a young man who was distinguished by his physical strength, and the social congestion worked silently, as the Egyptians (the Copts: they called the inhabitants of Egypt Copts) lived a luxurious life like Pharaoh’s entourage or a little less (middle class), but the ruins of the Children of Israel that contained the Children of Israel were like an open prison, where whoever was tortured was tortured in full view and hearing, and no one moved a muscle, as the Children of Israel were accustomed to enslavement to Pharaoh and his entourage, and the Copts had their interests in their hands, and no one moved a muscle, and Moses grew up and used to visit the ruins of the Children of Israel a lot and see and feel internal discontent and congestion and return to the palaces and see the servants serving him and psychological and material well-being surrounding everything, so he feels suppressed anger and is unable to move a muscle.

Allah says 

وَدَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ عَلَىٰ حِينِ غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا رَجُلَيْنِ يَقْتَتِلَانِ هَٰذَا مِن شِيعَتِهِ وَهَٰذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ ۖ

And he entered the city at a time when its people were unaware, and he found therein two men fighting, one of his party and the other of his enemy.

And he entered the ruins of the children of Israel (at a moment of surprise: no one knew that the king's son was among them) and found there two men quarreling: one of his party (the children of Israel) now he knew and understood that he was not from the inhabitants of Egypt nor the son of Pharaoh, and the other who was quarreling with the first was from his enemy (from the Copts)

Then one of his party sought help from him against one of his enemy, so Moses struck him and killed him

Then the one from his party (from the Children of Israel) called for help. Why did he call for help from him, he being the son of the king? does he feels that he knows their needs. does feels that he is angry with Pharaoh. does he feels that he supports the Children of Israel against the Copts? It seems, so he struck him: that is, he struck him with his whole hand, a strong blow, and the man died immediately, indicating the strength of Moses’ body. What is the whole hand of this that kills?

He said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a clear, misleading enemy"

He knew that killing is not permissible in the heavenly religions under any name, especially since he was defending others, not himself. He attributed this act to Satan, indicating that he had been following the religions of the Children of Israel since the days of Joseph the Truthful and before him.

He said, "My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, so forgive me." So He forgave him. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful. (16)

It doesn't matter that he felt he wronged himself, the important thing is that he spoke to God: And who is the God who spoke to him? He hasn't received the message yet? The faith of the prophets, so forgive me, the strangest thing: So he forgave him: What is this murder among the major sins in all the heavenly religions at least, how did God forgive him a major sin, the inner rage and anger and falling under great injustice makes a person a special matter with God Almighty, He is the Forgiving, the Most Merciful.

He said, “My Lord, because You have bestowed favor upon me, I will never be a supporter of the criminals.” (17)

Then he made a covenant with God Almighty. We said previously: Do not make a covenant with God about anything because you do not know yourself at the time of fulfillment. And God’s promise was responsible. Was Moses able to fulfill this covenant? Of course. And who is the criminal then? He is the one who commits a crime for which he deserves legal punishment. And who in Moses’ view is a criminal (the Children of Israel, the Copts, or Pharaoh). God knows what was going through Moses’ mind at that time, but it is a general, comprehensive sentence.

So he came to the city, fearful and watching, and suddenly the one who had sought his help the day before cried out to him

Moses' anger began to spill out of his chest, and he killed a Copt. The crime was quickly known among the ruins of the Children of Israel on the one hand, and between the Copts and the elite on the other. Imagine the scene: the son of Pharaoh kills an Egyptian Copt? There is doubt about Moses' direct loyalty to Pharaoh and his entourage in whose midst he lives. So he began to walk the streets of the city, fearful, watching to the right and left for someone to catch him. Then he finds the one who had called on him yesterday to kill the Copt quarreling with another Copt that day (he seems to be a troublemaker). He shouted at Moses to save him as he had saved him yesterday. He does not feel for Moses and his position. Sometimes, the one who stands by you takes advantage of your positive feelings towards him and exploits them in the worst way

Moses said to him, “Indeed, you are a clear linguist.” (18)

Moses seemed to feel that he was a troublemaker, and that being one of the children of Israel did not mean that he was wronged.

So when he intended to strike him who was an enemy to them both, he said, “O Moses, do you intend to kill me as you killed a person yesterday?”

Moses understood that he would kill the other Copt who was quarreling with one of the children of Israel. But the second Copt appealed to Moses’ chivalry and said to him his statement (Do you want to kill me as he killed a soul yesterday?) This means that the matter spread like wildfire among the Copts (the inhabitants of Egypt).

You only want to be a tyrant on earth, and you do not want to be among the reformers.

And who knows that Moses wanted to be a reformer? It seems that attempts at reform appear in slips of the tongue and facial expressions. Everyone today knows that Moses, the son of Pharaoh, turned against Pharaoh, and stands next to the most unfortunate segment of society (the Children of Israel). This was clearly stated by one of the Egyptian elite.

The story of the believer of the Pharaoh's family and Moses' warning to leave Egypt

وَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِّنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنَّ الْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَاخْرُجْ إِنِّي لَكَ مِنَ النَّاصِحِينَ (20) فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَائِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ

And a man came running from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses, indeed the eminent ones are conspiring against you to kill you, so go out. Indeed, I am to you among the sincere advisers.” (20) So he went out from it, fearful and waiting. He said, “My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people.”

And a man came running from the farthest end of the city

Wonderful Quranic stories: He did not even neglect the gait of the believer of Pharaoh’s family. A man from Pharaoh’s entourage came, but he was a believer who concealed his faith. How did he come to Moses? (He came from the farthest part of the city, so to its farthest part. And he came Jogging: Was he Jogging on foot? It seems, did they not have means of transportation? No, of course not. Don’t you remember with me the procession of Qarun, who was from Pharaoh’s people? So he came Jogging, perhaps secretly, so that no one would notice him. Jogging is a constant movement between walking and running. It is not hidden from anyone that this gait has a specific purpose.)

He said, "O Moses, indeed the eminent ones are conspiring to kill you."

He reached Moses: Moses did not doubt him and did not think about his saying that it could be otherwise. Did they know each other by their faith inside the Pharaonic palaces by sight only? God knows. So he said to him: The elite: Who are the elite? The ruling elite, the high-ranking white collars, who fill the first councils in conferences. These are the elite. The elite now want to get kill of the false son of Pharaoh from their point of view.

So go out, for I am indeed among your sincere advisers.

How beautiful is the advice from a loving person, the advisor has two options: The first: to advise for the sake of Allah Almighty, he has no purpose in this, the second: to advise for his own desires, he wants to get something from behind this fake advice, and this type of advice: real and not fake advice

So he went out from it, fearful and anticipating. He said, "My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people."

Fear - Anticipation - His life in Egypt has become impossible, he must leave, where to go, Moses?

The story of Moses - peace be upon him - from his first entry into Madyan until his return to Egypt

Moses' departure from Egypt and his arrival to Madyan

Why did he go to Madyan specifically?

This is a prophetic migration similar to the migration of Abraham, peace be upon him, when he said, “I am emigrating to my Lord.” God inspired Moses, peace be upon him, to head to the land of Madyan, where he would find a prophet who would teach him the etiquette of prophethood. Moses did not know where he was going, nor who he would find in his destination, as indicated by his saying, “Perhaps my Lord will guide me to the right path.” Ibn Abbas said: Moses set out, and he had no knowledge of the way, except for his good opinion of his Lord, The land of Midian is situated on the western shore of the Red Sea. Moses had taken a south-westerly route to it when he left Bel-Ramesses (or Memphis). He took a desert path that passed through the land of the Amalekites, the land of the Edomites, then the land of the Nabataeans to the land of Midian. This is a distance of approximately eight hundred and fifty miles. Since Moses was on foot during this journey, this distance required about forty-five days. He had to spend the night in the desert without fail. He was a strong man, and God had inspired him with the right path, so he did not go astray in his journey.

Allah says 

وَلَمَّا تَوَجَّهَ تِلْقَاءَ مَدْيَنَ قَالَ عَسَى رَبِّي أَنْ يَهْدِيَنِي سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ

And when he set out toward Madyan, he said, "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to the right way

Can you imagine this is a religious supplication? I mean, what kind of guidance does Moses want God to guide him to? Is it guidance to God Almighty? Impossible, because he knows God from the beginning and turns to Him in supplication. So this is guidance, knowledge of the path so that he does not lose his way... This is mostly correct: If you were on a desert road and you had a sign indicating to the right that whoever turns to you will go to such and such, and the same goes for the left road, but if you do not have any signs, then the possibilities of being right or wrong are very many, and what is the right path: the right thing (the moderate middle in which there is no crookedness to the right or to the left) God Almighty says (So he looked and saw him in the middle of Hellfire) He found him in the middle of Hell - God forbid - neither close to the surface so he would wish to get out, nor at the bottom - may God spare us - so he would wish for death, and perhaps he would find it. Rather, he is in the middle, surrounded by fire from all sides. So Moses asked God Almighty to reach the best destination that God Almighty would direct him to, which is the best, middle, and most just path.... It is a blessed and successful supplication from Moses. Did God Almighty inspire him with it, or did He say it? We do not know except that the supplications of the prophets are very important, as they are the best words that came from the mouths of honorable prophets. So let us supplicate with the supplication of Moses, peace be upon him, not only with the intention of guidance for us and our children, but let us supplicate with it when two matters are difficult for us, as if it were a quick istikhara, and God is Most High and All-Knowing.

Moses' arrival to Madyan

Allah says 

لَمَّا وَرَدَ مَاءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةً مِنَ النَّاسِ يَسْقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِنْ دُونِهِمُ امْرَأَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَا قَالَتَا لا نَسْقِي حَتَّى يُصْدِرَ الرِّعَاءُ وَأَبُونَا شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ فَسَقَى لَهُمَا ثُمَّ تَوَلَّى إِلَى الظِّلِّ فَقَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ فَجَاءَتْهُ إِحْدَاهُمَا تَمْشِي عَلَى اسْتِحْيَاءٍ قَالَتْ إِنَّ أَبِي يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَقَيْتَ لَنَا فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُ وَقَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الْقَصَصَ قَالَ لا تَخَفْ نَجَوْتَ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ قَالَتْ إِحْدَاهُمَا يَا أَبَتِ اسْتَأْجِرْهُ إِنَّ خَيْرَ مَنِ اسْتَأْجَرْتَ الْقَوِيُّ الأَمِينُ قَالَ إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُنْكِحَكَ إِحْدَى ابْنَتَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ عَلَى أَنْ تَأْجُرَنِي ثَمَانِيَ حِجَجٍ فَإِنْ أَتْمَمْتَ عَشْرًا فَمِنْ عِنْدِكَ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَيْكَ سَتَجِدُنِي إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ * قَالَ ذَلِكَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ أَيَّمَا الأَجَلَيْنِ قَضَيْتُ فَلا عُدْوَانَ عَلَيَّ وَاللَّهُ عَلَى مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌ) [القصص: 20-28]

When he came to the water of Madyan, he found there a group of people watering their flocks, and he found besides them two women driving back their flocks. He said, "What is the matter with you?" They said, "We cannot water [their flocks] until the shepherds depart, and our father is an old man, So he watered for them, then he turned to the shade and said, "My Lord, indeed I am, for whatever good You would send down to me, in need." Then one of the two women came to him, walking with modesty. She said, "Indeed, my father invites you that he may reward you for having watered our flocks for us." So when he came to him and told him the story, he said, "Do not fear. You have escaped from the wrongdoing people, One of them said, "O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy." He said, "Indeed, I want to marry you to one of these two daughters of mine on condition that you serve me for eight years. But if you complete ten, it will be of your own accord. And I do not want to make it difficult for you. You will find me, if Allah wills, among the righteous, He said, “That is between me and you. Whichever of the two terms I fulfill, there is no aggression against me. And God is Witness over what we say.” [Al-Qasas: 20-28]

When he came to the water of Midian, he found there a group of people watering water

Moses reached the first human gathering in Madyan. There was no water except around a human gathering and perhaps birds as well. He found a nation: a large group of people watering water, and with them were sheep who wanted to give them water to drink.

And he found two women holding back their sheep

He stands next to two women trying to keep their sheep away from drinking water, and there are many people, so the scene seems amazing.

He said, "What is the matter with you two?

They said, "We cannot water until the shepherds depart, and our father is an old man."

Note: Moses had just arrived from the fatigue and hardship of travel, but it seems that Moses' chivalry goes beyond himself and by a lot, as he could not bear the harm of two women and the loss of their right in the midst of the rabble of people while he is able to help with his strength that God has given him, as he does not have money or clothes or the tools of kings to help with, he is an ordinary person who does not own anything now like thousands of people, He said: What is the matter with you? The matter is the situation and the matter. They replied politely: They did not criticize their people who do not bring the women forward to relieve themselves of water first, but they said: We cannot water our sheep until the shepherds finish watering their sheep, and we go down to this work (the work of men is basically: herding sheep) because our father is an old man, Here is a note:

 Who forbids women from working at all?

There are exceptions in this life. The origin of sheep herding work is men’s work. So whoever works in mechanics or works today in construction or other work that is not familiar to women and has circumstances that forced her to do so, let her remember the daughters of Shu’ayb... and God knows best.

So he water them

No extra dialogue, no hesitation, nothing but providing service to the needy, and with this simplicity, and it seems that his physical strength, or perhaps his psychological strength, made room for the crowds and they did not wait until the last turn as was their custom.

Then he turned to the shade and said, "My Lord, indeed I, for whatever good You may send down to me, am in need

He did not ask them for a wage for this work, even though he was a stranger in a strange land. This is chivalry and manliness, and that was the end of it. Then he took shelter under the shade of a tree and said this famous supplication: “O Lord, I am indeed needy of whatever good You send down.” And if you are ever in need of God’s provision, then do something for someone that will make him independent of asking (very needy), especially if it is a woman who does not beg, but is truly needy. Then, turned to your Lord with this supplication: “With Your permission, my Lord, it is acceptable.” This is our hope in You, my Lord.

Then one of them came to him walking shyly

One of them returned to him while he was in the shade of the tree, walking with extreme shyness. The phrase “with shyness” indicates that shyness was walking before her while she was walking in its shade

She said: My father invites you to reward you for having watered our flocks

In the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace (...and whoever does you a favor, then reward him, and if you do not find anything with which to reward him, then pray for him until you think that you have rewarded him. Narrated by Abu Dawood and Al-Nasa’i with a sound chain of transmission, This is indicative of the Prophet’s command: the etiquette of returning a favor, and Shu’aib was either a prophet or a righteous man who understood the original Arabic principles... and that what it was.

So when he came to him and told him the story, he said, "Do not fear. You have escaped from the wrongdoing people

Finally, Moses reached the first man he could talk to about what happened to him in Egypt. What was the response of the righteous man, Shuaib? His first words to Moses were: No, no, he did not offer food. Rather, (Do not fear. You have escaped from the wrongdoing people). Here are several hints at the truth:

1 - The Almighty says (Who fed them against hunger and made them safe from fear) where God Almighty mentioned in the enumeration of His blessings upon the Quraysh: that He fed them and then made them safe from fear. As for Shuaib, He made Moses safe before giving him food and enriching him. Why? Because he was a stranger, not from the land of Madyan, and he had a chivalry that was not found in the people of the land, so he was known for what God had blessed him with, or if you like, say: the morals of kings. He was accustomed to women being honored in the Pharaonic palaces, and he was disgusted by the oppression of women from the Children of Israel, so his chivalry was superior to his basic needs for life.

2- How did Shuaib know that Moses’ words were true and that he would not deceive him, and how did he judge the people of Pharaoh to be unjust? It seems that the man was very wise, and it seems that the news of the Egyptians (as one of the great civilizations at that time) reached Madyan, so the great sheikh understood that Moses was not a liar and this is the chivalry of the people of generosity and help.

One of them said, "O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy

It doesn’t matter her name, nor her height or width, what matters are two things: First: How can an old Arab sheikh give his daughter the freedom to express herself about a strange man? This is not Arab morals. Second: He asked her about her moral standard by which she measured the morals of the strange man (Moses). She told him that he walked in front of her and she was removing a small brick for him to the right or left so that he would not lose his way, so she knew from that his honesty. As for his strength, it is said that the well in which there was water when the water was drawn needed ten men to remove it from the well, he carried it alone. God knows if this is true or Israelite…

He said, "I want to marry you to one of these two daughters of mine on condition that you serve me for eight years. If you complete ten, it will be of your own free will. I do not want to make it difficult for you

The old man knew the value of this man in his hands (strong and trustworthy) and he saved his two daughters from a daily misery, so he left him the freedom to choose one of his two daughters to marry and to hire him to herd the sheep for 8 years, so if he extends it to 10 years then that is your favor, O Moses, I don’t want to burden you with this request, but this was all that Moses needed at that time. The only strange thing about it is that he left the life of palaces (the king’s son) and agreed to live a life of tending sheep for 10 whole years. It doesn’t matter that this is the habit of the prophets, but on the human level: It is one of the strangest things you will hear: that a person should abandon material things for the sake of morale and supporting the weak and things that are not eaten, like a loaf of bread, as they say.

You will find me, if Allah wills, among the righteous

Moses' polite response was (You will find me, God willing, among the righteous) beginning with the will of God and his belief that he would not be an ordinary person but among the righteous, He said, "That is between me and you. Whichever of the two terms I fulfill, there is no aggression against me. And God is witness over what we say." They concluded the contract, and it was the men's agreement.

Moses returns from Madyan to Egypt

Moses, peace be upon him, stayed with his son-in-law Shuaib, peace be upon him, tending his sheep for ten years in the land of Midian. Then he missed his family and wanted to visit them in the land of Egypt. So he set out with his family on a dark, cold night, with his two sons and the sheep he had benefited from during his stay in Midian. While he was on the road on that dark, cold night in which God Almighty wanted to honor Moses, peace be upon him, and to initiate him with his prophethood and speech, Moses, peace be upon him, got lost with his family on the road until he did not know where to go and did not find his way to the familiar path. His wife was pregnant, so labor pains took her on that dark, cold night in which rain, thunder and lightning prevailed. Moses, peace be upon him, wanted to light a fire, but he could not find a way to do so. While he was like that, he became aware and saw a light from the side of the mountain, so he thought it was a fire. Moses, peace be upon him, went forward and when he reached close to Mount Tur in a valley called “Tuwa,” he saw a great light extending from the heavens to a great green tree there: it was the bramble. Moses, peace be upon him, was confused there. And his Lord called him.

 The beginning of speaking with God Almighty and receiving the message

1- The Fire position

Allah says 

 {وهل أتاكَ حديثُ موسى* إذْ رءا نارًا فقالَ لأهلِهِ امكثوا إنِّي ءانَسْتُ نارًا لعلي ءاتيكُم منها بقَبسٍ أو أجدُ على النارِ هدىً} [سورة طه/٩-١٠{فلمَّا قضى موسى الأجلَ وسارَ بأهلِهِ ءانَسَ مِن جانبِ الطورِ نارًا قالَ لأهلِهِ امكثوا إنِّي ءانستُ نارًا لعلِّي ءاتيكُم منها بخبرٍ أو جَذوةٍ مِنَ النارِ لعلّكُم تصطلون} [سورة القصص/٢٩]

{And has there reached you the story of Moses? When he saw a fire and said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I perceive a fire. Perhaps I can bring you a torch from it or find at the fire some guidance."} [Surat Ta-Ha/9- {So when Moses had fulfilled the term and was travelling with his family, he perceived a fire on the side of the mount. He said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I may bring you from it some information or a burning brand of fire that you may warm yourselves."} [Surat Al-Qasas/29]

Has the story of Moses, peace be upon him, reached you, O Muhammad? He is now a noble prophet to God, noble to those who believe in the unseen and whose duties of faith include belief in all the messengers and prophets. He saw a light from afar. It was a cold winter night, and they lost their way back to Egypt. They saw a light from afar, so He said to his family (wife), “I see a light from afar, so I will bring you a torch from it and come back

2 - The position of speaking to God - the Almighty -

Allah says 

: {فلمّا أتاها نُودِيَ يا موسى* إنِّي أناْ ربُّكَ فاخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إنَّكَ بالوادِ المُقَدَّسِ طُوًى* وأنا اخترتُكَ فاستَمِع لِما يُوحى* إنَّني أنا اللهُ لا إلهَ إلا أناْ فاعبُدني وأقِمِ الصلاةَ لِذِكرى} 

{So when he came to it, he was called, "O Moses, indeed I am your Lord, so take off your sandals. Indeed, you are in the sacred valley of Tuwa. And I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed. Indeed, I am God; there is no god except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance."}

When Moses reached the fire, he was called from a direction he did not know whether it was above or to the side. He did not know, but he heard his name (O Moses) I am your Lord.... How wonderful this call is and how difficult it is. It is the divine generosity to the son of the false king - if the expression is correct - by God’s decree, and Moses’ patience with the life of the poor after the life of kings for 10 years, which is something that only the rare ones can bear in this life. He immediately began a long conversation, and he asked him for the first request

(Take off your shoes)

And the sandal in a dream for Muslims: is interpreted as the wife and family. Some scholars say: The meaning of: Take off your shoes: is to forget from your mind your worries about this life and what is in it, including your family. And it was said: To take off your shoes means: This spot is blessed and it is as if you are in prayer with the Lord, as it is prescribed for Muslims to take off their shoes when speaking with God Almighty in prayer, and God is Most High and All-Knowing.

And I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed

What a beautiful choice in life: If a king, president, ambassador, or any other elite person mentioned you and your name was mentioned to him, you would die of joy. Should I mention my name to him? So what about: God, Lord of the Worlds, says to Moses in this rare situation in this life: I have chosen you, and what came after the word choice was to teach Moses that it was a duty and not an honor. God’s choices are not just for honor or preference or God forbid, for favoritism, no no, but rather because of His first knowledge that this heart of this person will carry what He has chosen for him, glory be to Him, and what came after I have chosen you (so listen to what He inspires)

Indeed, I am Allah, there is no god but Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance.

Monotheism: The first thing that Allah the Almighty chooses for his prophets is (the message of monotheism), for Allah is One, without partner or equal.

Second: Establish prayer. Why? To remember Me. What does this mean? If you love someone in this life, you remember him often. This is in the world of people. As for God, if you want to remember Him often, increase your prayer. In Islam, whoever wants to talk to God should pray, prostrate and talk to God often. Whoever wants God to talk to him should read the Quran or listen to it.

Allah says 

وقال تعالى: {فلمَّا أتاها نُودِيَ مِن شاطِئِ الوادِ الأيمَنِ في البُقعةِ المُباركةِ مِنَ الشجرةِ أن يا موسى إنِّي أنا اللهُ ربُّ العالمين} [سورة القصص/٣٠]

God Almighty said: {So when he came to it, he was called from the right side of the valley in the blessed spot from the tree, “O Moses, indeed I am God, Lord of the worlds.”} [Surat Al-Qasas/30]

Allah says 

 {فلمَّا جاءَها نُودِيَ أن بُورِكَ مَن في النارِ ومَنْ حولها وسُبحانَ اللهِ رَبِّ العالمين} [سورة النمل/٨].

{So when he came to it, he was called, “Blessed is he who is in the Fire and those around it. And exalted is God, Lord of the worlds.”} [Surat An-Naml: 8].

The same previous meaning in other verses from other surahs.

3 - The position of the staff

God Almighty said

وَمَا تِلْكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَا مُوسَى قَالَ هِيَ عَصَايَ أَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَهُشُّ بِهَا عَلَى غَنَمِي وَلِيَ فِيهَا مَآرِبُ أُخْرَى قَالَ أَلْقِهَا يَا مُوسَى فَأَلْقَاهَا فَإِذَا هِيَ حَيَّةٌ تَسْعَى قَالَ خُذْهَا وَلَا تَخَفْ سَنُعِيدُهَا سِيرَتَهَا الْأُولَى [سورة طه:17-21]

And what is that in your right hand, O Moses? He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and with it I beat down branches for my sheep, and I have therein other uses." He said, "Throw it down, O Moses." So he threw it down, and behold, it was a serpent, darting about. He said, "Take it and fear not. We will return it to its former state." [Surah Ta-Ha: 17-21]

Allah - the Almighty - completed the conversation with Moses - peace be upon him -

And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?

Does Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, not know what is in Moses’ hand? Of course He knows, but to comfort him on the one hand, and to qualify him to know that he is not dreaming, He wants to make him certain of what is in his hand first, then change the state of what is in his hand so that he is more confident in Allah’s words than in himself and His knowledge of them, and that he is not imagining or delusional.

He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and with it I beat down branches for my sheep, and I have other uses for it

Moses - peace be upon him - continued to answer, and God Almighty’s response was firm - if the expression is correct - for He did not go along with him in talking about the staff, but instead said to him: He said, “Throw it down, O Moses

Then he threw it down, and behold, it was a serpent seeking

. The stick with which he used to frighten the sheep turned into a huge serpent that ate everything in its path and had huge, terrifying fangs.

He said, "Take it and do not fear. We will restore it to its former condition

Moses - peace be upon him - was afraid of his humanity, for before he was a prophet he was a human being, so God Almighty said to him: Hold it again, in this state, O Lord, and it is alive? No, God Almighty will return it as a staff again. it is a living sign and a tangible miracle for Pharaoh and his entourage (the Egyptians: the Copts: for the people of Egypt were called Copts at that time) But why this type of sensory miracles that Allah the Blessed and Most High wanted for the Egyptians specifically? Because the Egyptians at that time were people of civilization and their civilization depended on chemistry, and chemistry works magic, and the evidence is that the Pharaohs excelled in mummification and mummifying food, kings, clothes and almost everything in coffins, and if they were opened after thousands of years they would be found as they were, to this day, and this is evidence of the greatness of their craftsmanship that amazed the world, so the miracle of Allah the Blessed and Most High for such advanced people would not be less than their action, and Allah is Most High and All-Knowing.

And in another verse, the Almighty says

 {يا موسى أقبِلْ ولا تَخَفْ إنَّكَ مِنَ الآمنينَ، قالَ خُذْها ولا تخَفْ سنُعيدُها سيرَتَها الأولى} [سورة طه/٢١

{O Moses, come forward and do not fear. Indeed, you are among those who are secure. He said, “Take it and do not fear. We will restore it to its former condition.”} [Surah Taha: 21]

When Moses ran in fear and terror from the appearance of the snake, God Almighty said to him: Come and do not fear, for you are among those who are safe, and We will restore it to its former state.

And in the verse

{وأن ألقِ عصاكَ فلمَّا رءاها تَهْتَزُّ كأنَّها جانٌّ ولّى مُدبرًا ولمْ يُعَقِّبْ} [سورة القصص/٣

{And throw down your staff. But when he saw it writhing as if it were a snake, he turned back in flight and did not look back.} [Surat Al-Qasas/3]

Here the snake is called a jinn, why? Our master Imam Metwally Al-Shaarawy - may God have mercy on him - explained that the snake is different from the serpent and different from the jinn. The serpent is the female snake and is the largest and most ferocious of them. The snake is the male. As for the young ones, they are called jinn because of their fast and light movement that is almost invisible, as if they were jinn. It was a snake of God: it combined the three categories at once. And God knows best.

4- The position of the whiteness of the hand without disease or vitiligo

Allah says 

{وأدْخِلْ يدَكَ في جيبِكَ تَخرُج بيضاءَ مِن غير سُوءٍ في تسعِ ءاياتٍ إلى فرعونَ وقومهُ إنَّهم كانوا قومًا فاسقين} [سورة النمل/١٢]

{And put your hand into your pocket ; it will come out white without disease. These are nine signs to Pharaoh and his people. Indeed, they were a people of wickedness.} [Surat An-Nahl: 12]

Pocket: It is the opening of the shirt: i.e. put your hand near your chest, it will come out white, and Moses - peace be upon him - was dark-skinned like the Egyptians, although he was not Egyptian, he was from the Children of Israel, so it would come out white, shining without illness. In this is a sensory miracle for the masters of magic, they know: that it is not magic like what they do in any way, and this is a sign other than the sign of the staff, other than 7 other signs that we will mention alone, God willing - signs for Pharaoh and his people, whom God Almighty called - a people of immoral people: i.e. outside of obedience.

And in another verse

 {اسْلُكْ يَدَكَ في جيبِكَ تخرُج بيضاءَ مِن غير سوءٍ واضمُمْ إليكَ جناحَكَ مِنَ الرَّهبِ فذانِكَ بُرهانانِ مِن ربِّكَ إلى فرعونَ ومَلإيهِ إنَّهُم كانوا قومًا فاسقين} [سورة القصص/٣٢]

{Put your hand into your bosom; it will come out white without disease. And fold your wing to yourself against fear. These are two proofs from your Lord to Pharaoh and his chiefs. Indeed, they were a people of evil.} [Surat Al-Qasas/32]

Here, God Almighty adds (and fold your wings towards you: meaning your arms) so that you do not feel fear) which is what is prescribed in our belief as Muslims: that we fold our arms towards us when we are very sad or frightened and mention and remember God Almighty, for this calms the fear with God’s permission) and God is Most High and All-Knowing, to the end of the noble verse.

The Story of Moses - peace be upon him - Meeting Pharaoh and the Rescue of the Children of Israel

Moses' first interview with Pharaoh and his entourage

Allah says 

وَإِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبُّكَ مُوسَىٰ أَنِ ائْتِ الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ (10) قَوْمَ فِرْعَوْنَ ۚ أَلَا يَتَّقُونَ

And when your Lord called to Moses, "Go to the wrongdoing people - (10) the people of Pharaoh. Will they not pious God?"

The Lord of the Worlds began by asking Moses - peace be upon him - to go to Pharaoh and his entourage and the Copts (the inhabitants of Egypt) and called them the oppressors. The worst thing you will see in life are the oppressors. God Almighty may be lenient with the disbelievers until their death, so He may give them and increase them perhaps, then He will never be lenient with them if they die in their polytheism. As for the oppressors, even if they are Muslims, God Almighty will not be lenient with them, neither in this world nor the hereafter. He may take them to task for their oppression in this world, or He may postpone it for them in the hereafter, depending on whether their injustice was enormous or ordinary, whether many people were wronged in it or few, whether those who were wronged among them were dear to God or otherwise, But Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, in the beginning and the end: does not love the oppressors, does not make them succeed, and their punishment is either postponed or hastened, and the hastened is always a lesson for those who want to take heed, and the people of Pharaoh will be their lesson throughout time and place because of their tyranny and severe oppression of the Children of Israel who were honored by Allah and they followed Moses with the first message that was sent down to him, then Moses - peace be upon him - knows who the oppressors are, the people of Pharaoh, and why did Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, not mention that they are the Copts (the inhabitants of Egypt)? Why did He attribute them to Pharaoh? It is said that people follow the religion of their kings, and if you notice that the Copts (the inhabitants of Egypt) were completely comfortable with the torment of the Children of Israel before their eyes and all that occupied their thoughts: was not to put their sons in hard labor instead of the males of the Children of Israel when they were annihilated by the systematic killing of them by the Pharaoh for fear of his kingdom.

Allah says 

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ (12) وَيَضِيقُ صَدْرِي وَلَا يَنطَلِقُ لِسَانِي فَأَرْسِلْ إِلَىٰ هَارُونَ (13)

He said, “My Lord, indeed I fear that they will lie me (12) and my chest will become constricted and my tongue will not be fluent, so send to Aaron.” (13)

Did Moses, peace be upon him, want to hesitate and not go to meet the unjust people out of fear of them, and present the hesitations to God, Lord of the Worlds? No: Rather, he lived with them and knew that they were stubborn people and would lie him. This is in addition to the fact that Moses, peace be upon him, was often emotional and when he became emotional, he would stutter in his speech. These verses that came on the tongue of Moses, peace be upon him, were nothing more than a presentation of a situation to the Lord of the Worlds to solve it, so that he would go without fear. And God is Most High and All-Knowing. In another verse, He said about Aaron: He was more eloquent than him in tongue. This is a pure heart (Moses, peace be upon him). It has been said that he is better than anyone’s guardian (Moses’ guardianship of his brother Aaron as a helper to him in the message). This is evidence of the purity of his heart and his self-confidence. He has talents that he does not neglect, his physical strength, his honesty, but he lacks fluency of tongue, so he asked for help from his brother. Yes, we as humans were sent down as enemies to one another (except for the righteous). So the righteous, wherever they are: they enjoin each other, not against each other. We came to complement, not to compete.

Allah says 

وَلَهُمْ عَلَيَّ ذَنبٌ فَأَخَافُ أَن يَقْتُلُونِ (14)

And they have a sin against me, so I fear that they will kill me (14)

The Copt was killed before he left Egypt

Allah says 

قَالَ كَلَّا ۖ فَاذْهَبَا بِآيَاتِنَا ۖ إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّسْتَمِعُونَ (15)

He said, "No! So go with Our signs. Indeed, We are with you, listening." (15)

God Almighty said, "So go." This is a direct command from God Almighty, then He said to him, "I am not with you by My power, but rather (listening) only.

Allah says 

فَأْتِيَا فِرْعَوْنَ فَقُولَا إِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ (16)

So go to Pharaoh and say, “We are messengers of the Lord of the worlds.” (16)

Go, you and your brother, and say to Pharaoh, “We are both messengers of the Lord of the worlds”

Allah says 

أَنْ أَرْسِلْ مَعَنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ

Send the Children of Israel with us

Where will he send them with them? No one knows yet, all they know is that they are being held in a large open prison, being tortured day and night, in full view of the Egyptians. Human nature: After a while of the scenes following one another (getting used to the scene) and no one doing anything, God Almighty wants to bestow His blessings on the weak so that they do not remain weak throughout their lives. And whoever has lived in slavery to humans, even if it is modern slavery such as working without pay in order to pay off debts, knows that whoever is freed from slavery (any kind, old or modern) needs long-term psychological treatment, so they search for another sponsor or another slave to enslave them.

He said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and did you not remain among us for many years of your life?" (18)

Then Pharaoh said to Moses, taunting him about his upbringing: Didn't we raise you among us as a child when he came to his palace in a coffin across the Nile, and you stayed among us for years of your life? And companionship is only easy for bastards, as they say. But does an oppressor have companionship? Is it called justice to give me and prevent thousands from their legitimate rights? Good souls cannot accept the suffering of others, even if they are pampered and lack nothing. The idea itself is an intellectually undigestible idea.

Allah says 

وَفَعَلْتَ فَعْلَتَكَ الَّتِي فَعَلْتَ وَأَنتَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ (19)

And you did your deed which you did, and you are among the disbelievers (19)

That is, he killed the Copt, and the Copts: the inhabitants of Egypt were also enslaved to Pharaoh, but of a different kind of enslavement, a ideological enslavement, as they believed in the divinity of Pharaoh. As for Pharaoh’s saying: And you are among the disbelievers, killing one of Pharaoh’s slaves (the Copt: if the expression is correct) means implicitly that he is an unbeliever in the divinity of Pharaoh.

Allah says 

قَالَ فَعَلْتُهَا إِذًا وَأَنَا مِنَ الضَّالِّينَ (20) فَفَرَرْتُ مِنكُمْ لَمَّا خِفْتُكُمْ فَوَهَبَ لِي رَبِّي حُكْمًا وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ (21)

He said, “I did it then, and I was among those astray.” (20) So I fled from you when I feared you, but my Lord granted me wisdom and made me one of the messengers. (21)

He said to him: I did it and I was not among the guided ones at that time (killing is forbidden in all heavenly religions, even the religion of Joseph, the last heavenly religion on earth before the Jewish religion - as far as we know -) so I fled from you because I feared for myself from you, so God gave me (a ruling: prophethood, and made me one of the messengers: the message to the Children of Israel)

Allah says 

وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَيَّ أَنْ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ (22)

And that is a favor that you bestow upon me, that you enslaved the Children of Israel (22)

Then Moses - peace be upon him - said to Pharaoh: Do you grant me a favor by making my life a property (the king’s son) and giving me and bestowing upon me, and enslaving an entire nation (the children of Israel)? As if he was saying to him: This is not a fair division. I am one in front of thousands.

Allah says 

قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَا رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ (23) قَالَ رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ (24)

Pharaoh said, “And what is the Lord of the worlds?” (23) He said, “The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, if you should be certain.” (24)

So Pharaoh asked: Who is the Lord of the worlds? Moses replied: The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them: meaning not the Lord of palaces, possessions, money, etc. Then he ended his speech with (if you are certain).

Allah says 

قَالَ لِمَنْ حَوْلَهُ أَلَا تَسْتَمِعُونَ (25) قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ آبَائِكُمُ الْأَوَّلِينَ (26) قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَكُمُ الَّذِي أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ لَمَجْنُونٌ (27)

He said to those around him, “Do you not listen?” (25) He said, “Your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers of old.” (26) He said, “Indeed, your messenger who has been sent to you is mad.” (27)

Pharaoh said to the surrounding elite (the people of Egypt) “Do you not listen? God is your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers.” Then he pointed to Moses, peace be upon him, and said that he was crazy. This is the basic argument with which he attacks all the messengers (madness), even though they are the most rational and perfect people in understanding and reason.

Allah says 

قَالَ رَبُّ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ۖ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ (28)

He said, “Lord of the East and the West and whatever is between them, if you would but use reason.” (28)

Then Moses - peace be upon him - said another rational argument (Lord of the East and the West and what is between them, if you only has reason).

Allah says 

 قَالَ لَئِنِ اتَّخَذْتَ إِلَٰهًا غَيْرِي لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ الْمَسْجُونِينَ (29)

He said, “If you take a god other than Me, I will surely put you among the imprisoned.” (29)

Pharaoh replied: If you take a god other than me (Pharaoh the god), I will put you in prison. This is the least thing Pharaoh can do, as he enslaves thousands of the Children of Israel in a prison where he is tortured in public. Isn’t Moses tortured in prison alone?

Allah says 

قَالَ أَوَلَوْ جِئْتُكَ بِشَيْءٍ مُّبِينٍ (30) قَالَ فَأْتِ بِهِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ (31)

He said, “Even if I bring you something clear?” (30) He said, “Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful.” (31)

Moses said: What if I bring you a clear sign? Pharaoh said to him: Bring it, if you are truthful.

Allah says 

فَأَلْقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ (32) وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ بَيْضَاءُ لِلنَّاظِرِينَ (33)

Then he threw down his staff, and behold, it was a serpent manifest. (32) And he drew out his hand, and behold, it was white to the onlookers. (33)

Moses - peace be upon him - began the divine performance that he had trained for on the blessed Mount Tur.

Allah says 

قَالَ لِلْمَلَإِ حَوْلَهُ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَاحِرٌ عَلِيمٌ (34) يُرِيدُ أَن يُخْرِجَكُم مِّنْ أَرْضِكُم بِسِحْرِهِ فَمَاذَا تَأْمُرُونَ (35)

He said to the assembly around him, “This is indeed a learned magician. (34) He wants to expel you from your land by his magic. So what do you command?” (35)

We said previously: The elite are those who fill the eyes with splendor and magnificence, who fill the first councils in conferences and other places, so Pharaoh said to these elite, that this is a learned magician, and why did he accuse him of magic? We said previously: The Egyptians excelled in magic and alchemy, and the magicians were also from the elite, and he did not deny him knowledge, but rather said (a learned magician), meaning he has a powerful craft, and it is a kind of introducing doubt into the souls of those around him from the elite against Moses - peace be upon him - Then he told them another mental trick: He wants to get you out of your land (Egypt) with his magic, so what do you command? Do you know what made the elite doubt Moses? He made them doubt that he wanted them to leave Egypt, and Egypt was one of the rare civilizations at that time, so much so that the Quran spoke about the countries around Egypt as Bedouins in Surat Yusuf (...and brought you from the Bedouins), so that they would understand that they would give up the splendor in which they live for a lesser life. Not only that: Our master Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy used to say in this verse: The Egyptians are among the people on the face of the earth who are most attached to their land even if they are foreigners from it, for the Nile River is the life of the Egyptians and they love to live in its shade as long as they are alive.

Allah says 

 قَالُوا أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ وَابْعَثْ فِي الْمَدَائِنِ حَاشِرِينَ (36) يَأْتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَحَّارٍ عَلِيمٍ (37)

They said, “Postpone him and his brother, and send to the cities gatherers (36) who will bring to you every learned magician.” (37)

Then the leaders said: After they feared for their seats and their social standing: Postpone Moses and his brother for a while, and send to all the cities of Egypt, so that they may bring you every learned magician, meaning that if Moses was a learned magician who knew his craft, then numbers would overcome courage, and his affair would be exposed.

Allah says 

فَجُمِعَ السَّحَرَةُ لِمِيقَاتِ يَوْمٍ مَّعْلُومٍ (38) وَقِيلَ لِلنَّاسِ هَلْ أَنتُم مُّجْتَمِعُونَ (39) لَعَلَّنَا نَتَّبِعُ السَّحَرَةَ إِن كَانُوا هُمُ الْغَالِبِينَ (40)

So the magicians were gathered for an appointed time on a known day. (38) And it was said to the people, “Are you gathered together? (39) Perhaps we will follow the magicians if they are the victors.” (40)

The argument of the Believer of the Family of Pharaoh: To Pharaoh and his Entourage

It seems that belief in God has certain requirements at some point in your journey of faith, and your silence, submission, and work yourself do not know, God Almighty does not neglect it, and He will not let the believers down, but it is possible that He will bring your work from the rules and make it scattered in vain unless you are extremely afraid of severe injustice or something similar. The most important thing: A man from the family of Pharaoh said, and imagine the scene: the family of Pharaoh gathered around the Nile River, eating the best types of food and wearing luxurious clothes and the servants walking right and left, and this elite among them stands up and says such words (And a believing man from the family of Pharaoh, who concealed his faith, said: Would you kill a man because he says, “My Lord is Allah,” and he has come to you with clear proofs from your Lord?)

Allah says 

وإن يكن كاذباً فعليه كذبه وإن يكن صادقا يصبكم بعض الذي يعدكم

And if he is a liar, then upon him is his lie, and if he is truthful, some of what he promises you will befall you

How beautiful this rational talk is. If he is a liar, the circle of lies will return to him alone, and if he is honest, the circle of honesty must benefit from him, i.e. as he wants to say: give him a chance.

Allah says 

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي مَنْ هُوَ مُسْرِفٌ كَذَّابٌ 

Indeed, Allah does not guide one who is a transgressor and a liar

Be assured that if God Almighty knew that Moses was a liar, He would never guide him or grant him success, because God does not guide someone who has gone too far in disobedience or who is accustomed to lying.

Allah says 

يَا قَوْمِ لَكُمُ الْمُلْكُ الْيَوْمَ ظَاهِرِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَمَن يَنصُرُنَا مِن بَأْسِ اللَّهِ إِن جَاءَنَا

O my people, yours is the kingdom this day, dominant upon the earth. But who will protect us from the wrath of Allah if it comes to us? then he warned them that the days are cycles, so if what Moses was saying was true, today you feel the power and the kingdom and everything is under control, and tomorrow who will protect us from the wrath of God if it comes to us? The beautiful thing about the matter is that the believer of the family of Pharaoh is very humble, so he included himself with the group of infidels so that they would feel that he is no better than them.

Allah says 

قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَا أُرِيكُمْ إِلَّا مَا أَرَىٰ وَمَا أَهْدِيكُمْ إِلَّا سَبِيلَ الرَّشَادِ

Pharaoh said, “I show you only what I see, and I guide you only to the path of right conduct

In the midst of this rational, wise tone, the Pharaoh appeared with a deep dissonance: I only show you what I see, and I only guide you to the path of righteousness. I hope these words are in the right place, but unfortunately they are not in the right place.

Allah says 

وَقَالَ الَّذِي آمَنَ يَا قَوْمِ إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُم مِّثْلَ يَوْمِ الْأَحْزَابِ (30) مِثْلَ دَأْبِ قَوْمِ نُوحٍ وَعَادٍ وَثَمُودَ وَالَّذِينَ مِن بَعْدِهِمْ ۚ وَمَا اللَّهُ يُرِيدُ ظُلْمًا لِّلْعِبَادِ (31)

And he who believed said, “O my people, indeed I fear for you like the Day of the Confederates (30) Like the way of the people of Noah, ‘Aad, and Thamud, and those after them. And God does not intend injustice for the servants.” (31)

Then the believer of the Pharaoh's family frightened them of the evil consequences of the previous nations, and they were still new to Joseph, peace be upon him - the Prime Minister of Egypt or the Minister of Finance at the time, and he had a heavenly religion that called people to monotheism, and he followed that by saying: God does not want injustice for the servants.

Allah says 

وَيَا قَوْمِ إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ يَوْمَ التَّنَادِ (32) يَوْمَ تُوَلُّونَ مُدْبِرِينَ مَا لَكُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ مِنْ عَاصِمٍ ۗ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ هَادٍ (33)

O my people, indeed I fear for you the Day of Calling (32) The Day when you will turn back and flee. You will have no protector from Allah. And he whom Allah sends astray - for him there is no guide. (33)

And the believer of the family of Pharaoh said to them: He is frightening them with the Day of Resurrection. Among the names of the Day of Resurrection is the Day of Calling: meaning calling out. The father calls out to his son asking for a good deed, but he does not give it to him. The mother asks her daughter, and the daughter asks her mother. The oppressed call out to the oppressors, and the weak call out to the arrogant: We were your followers, so can you protect us from the Fire? The Day of the Greatest Calling. Everyone calls out to whomever he is concerned with, and no one answers, Then He will say to them: On the Day of Resurrection, you will turn your backs, trying to escape, and you will have no protector from God. And whoever God misguides in this life, no one will guide him.

Allah says 

وَلَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ يُوسُفُ مِن قَبْلُ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ فَمَا زِلْتُمْ فِي شَكٍّ مِّمَّا جَاءَكُم بِهِ ۖ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا هَلَكَ قُلْتُمْ لَن يَبْعَثَ اللَّهُ مِن بَعْدِهِ رَسُولًا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ اللَّهُ مَنْ هُوَ مُسْرِفٌ مُّرْتَابٌ (34)

And Joseph had already come to you before with clear proofs, but you did not cease to be in doubt about what he brought you until, when he died, you said, “God will never send after him a messenger.” Thus does God leave astray he who is a transgressor and doubtful. (34)

He reminded them of the days of Joseph the Truthful - peace be upon him - and that when he died they doubted that God would send a messenger after him to the Children of Israel.

Allah says 

الَّذِينَ يُجَادِلُونَ فِي آيَاتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطَانٍ أَتَاهُمْ ۖ كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ وَعِندَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ قَلْبِ مُتَكَبِّرٍ جَبَّارٍ (35)

Those who dispute concerning the verses of Allah without any authority having come to them - it is greatly hated by Allah and by those who believe. Thus does Allah set a seal upon every arrogant, tyrannical heart. (35)

Arguing without knowledge or with knowledge is one of the most hated things by Allah Almighty - so much so that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said in a hadith: (I guarantee a house in the outskirts of Paradise for whoever abandons argumentation, even if he is right...) The outskirts of Paradise: its middle and highest part, meaning the closest thing to the highest paradise, and Allah is Most High and All-Knowing. So those who argue about the clear signs of Allah, such as the signs of Moses (the staff, the white hand, etc.), are among the most hated people in the sight of Allah Almighty. Likewise, Allah seals the heart of every arrogant and tyrannical person, so most likely the one who argues about the signs of Allah or mocks them...etc. is an arrogant and tyrannical person, these are attributes of Allah, the Blessed and Most High. Allah has attributes of majesty and attributes of beauty. Attributes of beauty (such as the Most Merciful, the Forgiving, the Generous, etc.) and He loves His servants to be characterized by them. As for attributes of majesty such as (the Arrogant, the Compeller, the Subduer, etc.), whoever disputes them with Him and tries to be characterized by them will end up losing, even after a while. What is the imprint on the heart then? Have you ever imprinted an image with a laser on a metal, for example? Can you remove this image afterwards without distorting it? Mostly it is difficult, and if you can, then know that whoever Allah imprints on his heart, faith will never enter him after that. We only ask Allah for permanent well-being.

Allah says 

وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَا هَامَانُ ابْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبَابَ (36) أَسْبَابَ السَّمَاوَاتِ فَأَطَّلِعَ إِلَىٰ إِلَٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّي لَأَظُنُّهُ كَاذِبًا ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ سُوءُ عَمَلِهِ وَصُدَّ عَنِ السَّبِيلِ ۚ وَمَا كَيْدُ فِرْعَوْنَ إِلَّا فِي تَبَابٍ (37)

And Pharaoh said, "O Haman, build for me a tower that I may reach the ways (36) The ways of the heavens and look up to the God of Moses. And indeed, I think he is a liar." And thus was made attractive to Pharaoh the evil of his deeds, and he was averted from the way. And the plot of Pharaoh was not but in ruin. (37)

Did Pharaoh remain silent in the face of this great intellectual argument in front of his ruling elite around him? No, rather he said to Haman, his faithful minister: Build me a tower: (The tall building going into the sky; and moderns call it a skyscraper). If this indicates anything, it indicates the cleverness of the Egyptians at that time and their strength not only in chemistry but also in building towers. Why, Pharaoh? (Perhaps he will reach the causes) The causes of what? The causes of the heavens. So he see the God of Moses in the sky, and I think that Moses is a liar that there is a god in the first place. God Almighty comments on this tyrant: And thus evil was made fair-seeming to Pharaoh, and he was averted from the path of faith and guidance. And the plot and deceit of Pharaoh (was only destruction and loss) but everything has a time.

It seems that the dialogue continued, and Pharaoh's nonsense was not silenced by one of his faithful entourage who began the rational argument and said to the crowd:

Allah says 

وَقَالَ الَّذِي آمَنَ يَا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُونِ أَهْدِكُمْ سَبِيلَ الرَّشَادِ (38)

And he who believed said, “O my people, follow me; I will guide you to the path of right conduct.” (38)

After the edifice, science and technology that Egypt had reached at that historical time, the one who wanted the Pharaoh to depend on it, the believer of the Pharaoh’s family wanted to restore the balance between matter and spirit, so he told them about the path of guidance.

Allah says 

يَا قَوْمِ إِنَّمَا هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا مَتَاعٌ وَإِنَّ الْآخِرَةَ هِيَ دَارُ الْقَرَارِ (39)

O my people, this worldly life is only a temporary enjoyment, and indeed, the Hereafter - that is the home of settlement. (39)

He called them, “O people,” meaning, “I am from you and you are from me.” Have you forgotten that I am from the elite like you, a Copt like you, and an Egyptian like you? I am not from the ruins of the Children of Israel, but I believed in what Moses, peace be upon him, brought because he deserved belief. He reminded them that this worldly life is “temporary,” and that the Hereafter is the abode of true stability.

Allah says 

مَنْ عَمِلَ سَيِّئَةً فَلَا يُجْزَىٰ إِلَّا مِثْلَهَا ۖ وَمَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَىٰ وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ فَأُولَٰئِكَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ يُرْزَقُونَ فِيهَا بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ (40)

Whoever does evil will not be recompensed except by the like thereof. And whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer - those will enter Paradise and will be provided for therein without account. (40)

Indeed, most of the heavenly laws are very similar in terms of laws and rulings.

Allah says 

وَيَا قَوْمِ مَا لِي أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى النَّجَاةِ وَتَدْعُونَنِي إِلَى النَّارِ (41) تَدْعُونَنِي لِأَكْفُرَ بِاللَّهِ وَأُشْرِكَ بِهِ مَا لَيْسَ لِي بِهِ عِلْمٌ وَأَنَا أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى الْعَزِيزِ الْغَفَّارِ (42)

O my people, why do I invite you to salvation while you invite me to the Fire? (41) You invite me to disbelieve in God and associate with Him that of which I have no knowledge, while I invite you to the Almighty, the Forgiving. (42)

Then he addressed them with these words in a rational manner, hoping that they would benefit from them.

Allah says 

لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّمَا تَدْعُونَنِي إِلَيْهِ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَعْوَةٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ وَأَنَّ مَرَدَّنَا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَأَنَّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ هُمْ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ (43)

Indeed, that to which you invite me has no claim in this world or in the Hereafter, and that our return is to God, and that the transgressors are the companions of the Fire. (43)

Allah says 

فَسَتَذْكُرُونَ مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ ۚ وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِي إِلَى اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَصِيرٌ بِالْعِبَادِ (44) 

Then he concluded with:

 “You will remember what I say to you, and I entrust my affair to God. Indeed, God is Seeing of His servants.” (44)

It is a comprehensive and comprehensive statement to this day. Whoever neglects, if he sees that someone around him is plotting against him, to supplicate this believer with true faith: “And I entrust my affair to God. Indeed, God is Seeing of His servants.”

Allah says 

فَوَقَاهُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِ مَا مَكَرُوا ۖ وَحَاقَ بِآلِ فِرْعَوْنَ سُوءُ الْعَذَابِ (45)

But God saved him from the evil of their plot, and the evil of the punishment encompassed Pharaoh’s people. (45)

It seems that they planned to kill him to silence his voice instead of thinking about what he said and using reason in it.

A quick comment on the story

1- Faith can be kept secret in your heart and not revealed to anyone if you fear for yourself, but faith has requirements that must appear at some point in your faith journey with God Almighty - if necessary -

2 - The believer of the Pharaoh's family was not afraid to discuss his religious ideas among a number of deniers, laughers and mockers as long as he was right. In another verse in the Qur’an (So when he brought them Our signs, at once they laughed at them)

3 - A strong argument against those who say that all the Pharaohs were infidels: It is enough that among them was the believer of the Pharaoh's family

The rest of the verses that Moses - peace be upon him - brought to the Finds to Pharaoh and his entourage

Allah says 

وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ تِسْعَ آيَاتٍ بَيِّنَاتٍ ۖ فَاسْأَلْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِذْ جَاءَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ فِرْعَوْنُ إِنِّي لَأَظُنُّكَ يَا مُوسَىٰ مَسْحُورًا (101) 

And We had certainly given Moses nine clear signs. So ask the Children of Israel when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, “Indeed, I think, O Moses, that you are bewitched.” (101)

Allah says 

(وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِالسِّنِينَ وَنَقْصٍ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ) سورة الأعراف

(And We certainly seized the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and loss of fruits.) Surah Al-A’raf

Allah says 

{فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم آيات مفصلات فاستكبروا وكانوا قوما مجرمين} (الأعراف:133

{So We sent upon them the flood, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people.} (Al-A’raf: 133)

The verses were consecutive

 Ibn Abbas said, “And We gave Moses nine clear signs.” He said: The nine clear signs: his hand, his staff, his tongue, the sea, the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood are detailed signs.

The Blood

 Zaid bin Aslam said: The blood that was imposed on them was nosebleeds, so they came to Moses and said, O Moses, call upon your Lord to remove this blood from us so that we may believe in you and send the Children of Israel with you. So he called upon his Lord - the Almighty - and He removed it from them, but they did not believe. That is what He - the Almighty - said: (So We sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the lice and the frogs and the blood as distinct signs) one after the other.

The Flood

 Imam Al-Wahidi mentioned this in his interpretation of these verses, saying: “So Moses prayed against them, and God sent down water upon them from the sky until the houses of the Copts (the inhabitants of Egypt) were filled with water, and not a single drop of water entered the houses of the Children of Israel.”

The Frogs 

So God sent frogs upon them, and they filled their homes with them, and they suffered from them a severe harm that they had never suffered before, for they would jump into their pots, spoil their food, and extinguish their fires. They said: O Moses, pray to your Lord to remove the frogs from us, for we have suffered from them a great calamity and harm, and we will believe in you and send the Children of Israel with you.

The Lice

 As for lice, which are ticks, they used to swim in their clothes, bodies, bedding, and food. Therefore, they would suffer the most severe suffering and harm from them while they were awake, asleep, and in all their other circumstances.

The Locusts

 The locusts that God Almighty sent upon the people of Pharaoh in an unprecedented manner, so they covered the earth, and blocked the sunlight due to their large numbers, and they did not leave them with crops, fruits, or trees, so much so that it was said that they were eating the iron nails of the doors until their houses and dwellings fell down.

The sea

 The incident of the sea splitting into two like two great mountains, and the incident of the two parts joining together, and the sea returning to what it was; both were miracles for Moses - peace be upon him - God - the Almighty - commanded him in the first to strike with his staff, so he struck it a blow that split it into two, and between them was the dry path by which God saved the Children of Israel from Pharaoh and his brutality.

The Witches' Meeting on  The decoration Day

The people gathered for a specific day, which was the day of adornment. Pharaoh sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the nobles of his state lined up for him. The subjects stood to the right and left. Moses, peace be upon him, approached, leaning on his staff, and with him was his brother Aaron. The magicians stood in rows before Pharaoh, and he incited and urged them, and urged them to do their work well on that day, and they made wishes to him, while he prepared them and made them hopeful.

Allah says 

فَلَمَّا جَاءَ السَّحَرَةُ قَالُوا لِفِرْعَوْنَ أَئِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجْرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحْنُ الْغَالِبِينَ (41)

So when the magicians came, they said to Pharaoh, “Will there be a reward for us if we are the victors?” (41)

The magicians, who were men of knowledge and wisdom, gathered and addressed their speech to the head of state and the alleged god: Pharaoh. They said to him: We will have a reward if we are the victors. In front of the elite and the masses of the Egyptians, they did not care that their work required a reward. As for Moses, peace be upon him, he would not take a reward from Pharaoh or anyone else for his call.

Allah says 

قَالَ نَعَمْ وَإِنَّكُمْ إِذًا لَّمِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ (42)

He said, "Yes, and indeed, you will be among those brought near." (42)

Until now: Pharaoh was full of confidence that they were the winners, and that whoever came leaning on the staff of Moses - peace be upon him - after the kings were dressed, would come leaning on a staff and claim (in Pharaoh’s view) that it would turn into a great serpent. The most important thing: Pharaoh, who was confident in the magicians’ victory, said to them, “Yes, you will have a reward, and not only that, but you will be among those close to King Pharaoh and his entourage.”

Allah says 

قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰ أَلْقُوا مَا أَنتُم مُّلْقُونَ (43)

Moses said to them, "Cast down what you are going to cast down." (43)

The practical debate ring began: Today is a holiday and people are naturally gathered together, and even more gathered together to see who will be the victor? So Moses, peace be upon him, threw the ball into their court - if so to speak - and they begin by throwing their staff and magic.

Allah says

فَأَلْقَوْا حِبَالَهُمْ وَعِصِيَّهُمْ وَقَالُوا بِعِزَّةِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الْغَالِبُونَ (44)

So they threw down their ropes and their staffs and said, “By the might of Pharaoh, we will surely be the victors.” (44)

They started throwing their magic on the ground, most of it was sticks and ropes, and they swore by the glory of Pharaoh that they would be the winners.

Allah says 

فَأَلْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ (45)

Then Moses threw down his staff, and behold, it swallowed up what they were fabricating. (45)

Moses threw his staff (he had been trained by God Almighty - if the expression is correct) before this great scene, and his staff caught up with what they were lying about, the most severe kind of lie (as it seemed to the observer that it was moving, but in reality it was not).

Allah says 

فَأُلْقِيَ السَّحَرَةُ سَاجِدِينَ (46)

So the magicians fell down prostrating (46)

Look at the word (they threw) as an indication that it was not a pre-planned plan, but rather a spontaneous and instinctive one that suddenly arose, so they prostrated to God, Lord of the Worlds, because they knew that this huge serpent (Moses’ staff that turned into a serpent) could never be magic of the kind that they present to people.

Allah says 

قَالُوا آمَنَّا بِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ (47) رَبِّ مُوسَىٰ وَهَارُونَ (48)

They said, “We believe in the Lord of the worlds, (47) the Lord of Moses and Aaron.” (48)

They declared faith, even though they knew the consequences of this because of the tyranny of the claimant to divinity, Pharaoh.

Allah says 

قَالَ آمَنتُمْ لَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ آذَنَ لَكُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُ لَكَبِيرُكُمُ الَّذِي عَلَّمَكُمُ السِّحْرَ فَلَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ ۚ لَأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُم مِّنْ خِلَافٍ وَلَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ (49)

He said, "You believed in him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your chief who taught you magic, so you will surely know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on alternate sides, and I will surely crucify you all." (49)

Pharaoh was enraged, became angry, stood up and said: You believed him before I gave you permission, then the magic turned against the magician as they say. He said to them: After they had been loved for a while, they became in the blink of an eye: He is your leader who taught you magic. This is how some people turn their opinions away from you and revolve according to their interests only. He threatened them (You will soon know) and began to list the type of torment that awaited them.

Allah says 

قَالُوا لَا ضَيْرَ ۖ إِنَّا إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَ (50) إِنَّا نَطْمَعُ أَن يَغْفِرَ لَنَا رَبُّنَا خَطَايَانَا أَن كُنَّا أَوَّلَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (51)

They said, "No harm. Indeed, to our Lord we will return." (50) Indeed, we hope that our Lord will forgive us our sins, if we were the first of the believers. (51)

Ibn Hajar said: The severity of death does not indicate a decrease in status, but rather it is for the believer either an increase in his good deeds or an expiation for his bad deeds. End quote.

It was proven that he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: The martyr does not feel the pain of death except as one of you feels the pain of a pinch. Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi, who said: A good and authentic hadith.

The point of the story

The servant will do the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is only an arm’s length between him and it, then what has been written will overtake him and he will do the deeds of the people of Hell, and he will enter Hell.

The salvation of Moses and the children of Israel with him

What does the phrase (Moses' saved from Pharaoh) mean to you? Pride - victory - empowerment after weakness - right? If you think about this, you have honest it. As for them taking victory without effort, this is impossible. As for them not paying the price, this is impossible again. As for the third impossibility: that Moses escaped without severe scrutiny for no reason other than that he was among the messengers of the dertrminations . The resolute messengers are five prophets and messengers from God Almighty (Noah - Abraham - Moses - Jesus - Muhammad), may God's prayers be upon them all. There were several prophets from heaven, but these five had lives full of hardships and challenges more severe than any other prophets. They were called that because they were very patient in conveying their message until God granted them victory.

1 - The first stage

The Copts of Egypt persisted in their disbelief in Moses and his message, their stubbornness and their standing with Pharaoh

 Who are the Copts of Egypt

 Copts is a word that was used to refer to the people of Egypt, whatever their religion was, and they were not Christians as some believe, as Christianity had not yet been revealed.

Did Moses come to them with a message, that is, to the Copts?

Of course, some types of torment were brought down upon them as a kind of miracles, and they were all sensory miracles such as blood coming down from the wells of water, locusts, frogs, and others. The West today calls it the wrath of nature, and believers in God in every age call it the wrath of God, or here it is a sensory miracle so that whoever believes may believe with clear evidence and whoever disbelieves may disbelieve with clear evidence of his matter, Pharaoh persisted in his tyranny, oppression, disbelief and tyranny, tempting his people away from the true religion. What is the evidence for this?

God Almighty said

{فَمَا آمَنَ لِمُوسَى إِلاَّ ذُرِّيَّةٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِ عَلَى خَوْفٍ مِّن فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَئِهِمْ أَن يَفْتِنَهُمْ وَإِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ لَعَالٍ فِي الأَرْضِ وَإِنَّهُ لَمِنَ الْمُسْرِفِينَ} [يونس: 83]

{None believed in Moses except a few of his people, out of fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs, lest they should persecute them. And indeed, Pharaoh was exalted in the land, and indeed, he was among the transgressors.} [Yunus: 83]

So the people of Egypt, call them the elite, call them the elite of the people - call them the Un - weak ones, those who believed among them were few because they were afraid of the brutality of Pharaoh and his people. The people: they are the ones who fill the first rows in palaces, parties, and other official ceremonies, and they are the ones who fill the eyes with splendor, and they are the ones with the high white collars, because the Copts of Egypt were afraid of these people, and of course Pharaoh as well, then God Almighty comments on this situation by saying that Pharaoh was arrogant on earth and was one of the extravagant.

2 - The second stage ((Making distinctive houses in Egypt))

Allah Almighty inspired His Prophet Moses and his brother Aaron - peace be upon them - to make houses for their people distinct from the houses of the Copts, so that they would be ready to depart if they were ordered to do so, so that they would know each other's houses.

Allah says 

﴿ وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ وَأَخِيهِ أَن تَبَوَّآ لِقَوْمِكُمَا بِمِصْرَ بُيُوتًا وَاجْعَلُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ قِبْلَةً وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ﴾

And We inspired Moses and his brother, saying, “Settle for your people in Egypt, houses, and make your houses places of prayer, and establish prayer, and give good tidings to the believers

The noble verse carries the idea of loyalty and disavowal, identity, difference, preserving religious identity in the midst of the public. Most importantly: God Almighty commanded them to make distinctive houses for the Children of Israel, and for there to be a qiblah between Moses and his brother Aaron - peace be upon them - to which the believers would turn whenever they needed something, even if it was something spiritual, such as steadfastness in faith. And God is Most High and All-Knowing.

3 - The third stage (Moses - peace be upon him - meeting his followers)

He advises them, confirms them, guides them, and connects them to the Creator of the earth and the heavens, because believers forget the reminder, and no human being was named except from forgetfulness. And the Most High says (And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers) So God Almighty said about Moses, peace be upon him, while he was encouraging the Children of Israel to adhere to the covenant of faith:

Allah says 

{وَقَالَ مُوسَى يَا قَوْمِ إِن كُنتُمْ آمَنتُم بِاللّهِ فَعَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلُواْ إِن كُنتُم مُّسْلِمِينَ} [يونس: 84].

{And Moses said, “O my people, if you have believed in God, then rely upon Him, if you should be Muslims.”} [Yunus: 84].

We benefit from the noble verse: that trust in God - the Most High - is part of the faith journey for each person individually, and faith, although it is easy to say there is no god but God with a piece of paper you inherited from your family, trust is something practical and not just words, and although it is practical, it is an act of obedience of the heart, and the acts of obedience of the heart are not attained by believers except those who have risen in their faith, and trust is a test, it is not empty words I trust in God and that’s it, rather the test is severe: that He makes you in the frame of the picture alone without supporters, so if you resolve to move forward despite the many slackers around you, then you are truly trusting in God, and look at the words of the Children of Israel when Moses, peace be upon him, strengthened them

Allah says 

{فَقَالُواْ عَلَى اللّهِ تَوَكَّلْنَا رَبَّنَا لاَ تَجْعَلْنَا فِتْنَةً لِّلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ}[يونس: 85]

{And they said, “Upon Allah we have put our trust. Our Lord, do not make us a trial for the wrongdoing people.”} [Yunus: 85]

The fourth stage (Moses, peace be upon him, asked God Almighty to be harsh on Pharaoh and his entourage)

As Moses said on the tongue of the Holy Quran

{وَقَالَ مُوسَى رَبَّنَا إِنَّكَ آتَيْتَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلأهُ زِينَةً وَأَمْوَالاً فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا رَبَّنَا لِيُضِلُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِكَ رَبَّنَا اطْمِسْ عَلَى أَمْوَالِهِمْ وَاشْدُدْ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَلاَ يُؤْمِنُواْ حَتَّى يَرَوُاْ الْعَذَابَ الأَلِيمَ} [يونس: 88]

{And Moses said, “Our Lord, indeed You have given Pharaoh and his chiefs splendor and wealth in the life of this world, our Lord, that they may mislead [people] from Your way. Our Lord, obliterate their wealth and harden their hearts so they will not believe until they see the painful punishment.”} [Yunus: 88]

Why did Moses, peace be upon him, curse Pharaoh and his entourage while he was outside their homes and raised on their lap? Moses, peace be upon him, understood that adornment, money, and children are great temptations among the 4 great temptations in this life from which few can escape safely and victoriously with God Almighty, namely (money, beauty, power, and knowledge). So whoever takes a share of one or all of them rarely loves God or loves His commands, glory be to Him, or at the very least, does not become preoccupied with them instead of Him, glory be to Him.

What was the reaction of God Almighty to the call of Moses and Aaron? Did He leave them? No, but He said to them:

{قَالَ قَدْ أُجِيبَت دَّعْوَتُكُمَا، {فَاسْتَقِيمَا وَلاَ تَتَّبِعَانِّ سَبِيلَ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ} [يونس: 89]

{He said, “Your prayer has been answered. So remain upright and do not follow the way of those who do not know.”} [Yunus: 89]

The question here is

 We did not hear about the destruction of Pharaoh's palaces or his entourage until they died, so how (was the supplication of Moses and Aaron, peace be upon them, answered)? Does God - the Almighty - not implement His word, God forbid, but He implemented them but in another way, that He bequeathed everything they had to Moses and Aaron and the believers with him? Of course, God is Most High and All-Knowing. The strangest thing is that He - Glory be to Him - did not answer their supplication immediately and thought no, but He ordered them to be righteous and not to follow the path of the corruptors. Why? Why does God Almighty burden the believers with commands and prohibitions in difficult times and leave the disobedient, criminals and corruptors as they are and increase the commands on the believers? This is truly strange, because the origin is that God should make it easy for Moses and Aaron because they are the ones who carried His call and spread it among the Egyptians, not the truth is that the righteousness of Moses and Aaron is the best thing for their call so that he does not fall for a moment in the eyes of Pharaoh and his entourage and be a zero number that can influence him. And God is Most High and All-Knowing.

The fifth stage (exit from Egypt to the Levant)

The decisive moment has come, which Moses, Aaron and the believers with him had prepared for years. Before we begin to talk about this stage, there is a pressing question on the mind: Why did they leave Egypt when they were going to inherit the palaces of the Children of Israel, their money and their jewelry? Why then the migration and the psychological torture? Migration is not a suitcase for a trip to the coast. Migration has a suitcase full of memories. The truth is that we do not know what God Almighty wants, but perhaps when God Almighty saves you from a real tragedy, do not sit in the same place where you were tortured for a long time. Go out and leave all the psychological and perhaps physical torture behind you. When you return, you will not find your country the same, nor you the same. Everything has changed for the better, the best and the most complete God' willing. 

Back to the decisive moment

Allah says 

{وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى مُوسَى أَنْ أَسْرِ بِعِبَادِي إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ فَأَرْسَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ فِي الْمَدَائِنِ حَاشِرِينَ إِنَّ هَؤُلاَء لَشِرْذِمَةٌ قَلِيلُونَ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَنَا لَغَائِظُونَ وَإِنَّا لَجَمِيعٌ حَاذِرُونَ فَأَخْرَجْنَاهُم مِّن جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ وَكُنُوزٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ كَذَلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَاهَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَأَتْبَعُوهُم مُّشْرِقِينَ} [الشعراء: 52-60].

{And We inspired Moses, "Travel by night with My servants; indeed, you will be pursued." So Pharaoh sent gatherers among the cities. Indeed, these are a small band. And indeed, they are vexing to us, and indeed, we are all on guard.} So We brought them out from gardens and springs, And treasures and a noble station. Thus, We caused the Children of Israel to inherit it. So they pursued them at sunrise. [Al-Shu’ara: 52-60].

That is, Pharaoh pursued Moses, Aaron, and the Children of Israel with the soldiers and caught up with them at sunrise.

The two armies now saw each other: each group could see the other clearly. The believers who were with Moses, peace be upon him, were afraid, so they said their famous statement in the history of the heavenly religions: 

Allah says 

{إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ} [الشعراء: 61]

{Indeed, we will be overtaken.} [Ash-Shu`ara’: 61]

Because the sea was in front of them and Pharaoh and his entourage were behind them, death was certain. So Moses’ response - peace be upon him - was:

Allah says 

{قَالَ كَلاَّ إِنَّ مَعِيَ رَبِّي سَيَهْدِينِ} [الشعراء: 62]

{He said, "No! Indeed, my Lord is with me; He will guide me."} [Ash-Shu'ara: 62]

As simple as that, and will this word reassure the believers with him? Did Moses, peace be upon him, have a strong personality? I mean psychological strength: you may find a fat man, when he sees a mouse, running away in fear, and you may see a thin, weak, strong-willed man shake everything he sees because of his psychological strength. Let us return to Moses, peace be upon him: The truth is that Moses’ faith rose in his chest to the highest levels of faith, as if he saw victory before his eyes, and this strength was enough to carry the believers from the Children of Israel with him.

Stage 6 (Meeting of the Two Groups)

Allah says 

{وَجَاوَزْنَا بِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ الْبَحْرَ فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ وَجُنُودُهُ بَغْيًا وَعَدْوًا حَتَّى إِذَا أَدْرَكَهُ الْغَرَقُ قَالَ آمَنتُ أَنَّهُ لا إِلِهَ إِلاَّ الَّذِي آمَنَتْ بِهِ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ وَأَنَاْ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ آلآنَ وَقَدْ عَصَيْتَ قَبْلُ وَكُنتَ مِنَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ فَالْيَوْمَ نُنَجِّيكَ بِبَدَنِكَ لِتَكُونَ لِمَنْ خَلْفَكَ آيَةً وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ عَنْ آيَاتِنَا لَغَافِلُونَ} [يونس: 92].

{And We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in oppression and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, "I believe that there is no god except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims now. And you disobeyed before and were of the corrupters. So this Day We will save you with your body that you may be to those who come after you a sign. And indeed, many among the people are disobedient." They are heedless of Our signs. (Yunus: 92)

We will not tell the usual story

Just remember that Moses, peace be upon him, after passing with the Children of Israel to the opposite side of the sea, tried to close the sea with his staff, but God Almighty forbade him from doing so. Then Pharaoh and his entourage, I wonder how Moses, peace be upon him, with his humanity and his well-known psychological impulsiveness, controlled his nerves in such a difficult situation to carry out God Almighty’s commands? Moses did not know God’s wisdom and did not understand it, yet he carried it out. We do not understand God Almighty’s wisdom in most of what happens in our lives, and we stand shocked and sad about our Lord’s position towards us, even though we believe in Him. Then things become clear and God’s wisdom becomes clear, but our father or mother did not do anything better for us than what God chose for us.

And look! The story of Pharaoh and his entourage, their palaces, their staying up late and their chatting in mockery of Moses and the believers with him has ended... A chapter has ended and another chapter will begin in which the believers will rise, the people of faith will rise and the truth will triumph for the first time in this part of long human history.

In conclusion

We benefit from the stages of Moses' salvation, peace be upon him, as follows

1- How much time passed between the mission of Moses and his escape from Pharaoh? The truth is that there is no real knowledge: but all we understand is that the speed of narrating the events in the Qur’an is not the same in reality, but rather years and years in which Moses, Aaron and the believers with him pass every day with psychological harm from the denial of the corrupt elite and he completed what God directed him to do without tiring or boredom or despair until God saved him, which is that salvation at the beginning of the road does not know its color, taste or smell, that is, it is something material and not spiritual, so how can it shine in the mind of those who await it without it being represented as something material in front of them as the Children of Israel hastened, it is the fruit of trust and it is all the actions of the heart and the materialities of this life have no role in its calculations.

2 - Believers are more severely tested than non-believers Saad bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: O Messenger of Allah, which people are most severely tested? He said: ((The prophets, then the best of the best, then the best of the best. A man is tested according to his religion. If he is firm in his religion, his test will be severe. If he is weak in his religion, he will be tested according to his religion. The test will not leave the servant until it leaves him walking on the earth without any sin upon him.))

3 - Migration from the country of origin is written for every believer, it seems, and it is uprooting and planting in other places that may not resemble us and we do not know anything about them. It is the will of God - may He be glorified and exalted.

4 - The outcome is for the righteous - The outcome is for the believers - The outcome is for the successful So peace be upon Moses and Aaron, the two greatest brothers in human history, who supported each other in times of hardship, and the brotherhood remained in times of victory, teaching and educating the Children of Israel.

The question that we must ask ourselves as Muslims

Are we truly believers? Are we upright in following Allah's commands? Are we not followers of the corrupt... If we were to wait for victory, when, where, or smell it, it does not matter. The most important thing is that we wait for victory with faith and certainty and know that many martyrs will fall from among us and that a few will remain whom Allah wants for something great. And Allah is Most High and All-Knowing.

Moses' dealing with the Children of Israel after their salvation

Allah says 

{وَنُرِيدُ أَنْ نَمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الأرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوَارِثِينَ * وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِي الأرْضِ وَنُرِيَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ) الْقَصَصِ/5- 6

{And We desired to bestow a favor upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them leaders and make them inheritors. And establish them in the land and show Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers from them that which they had feared.} Al-Qasas/5-6

Allah says 

(وَأَوْرَثْنَا الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مَشَارِقَ الأرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَةُ رَبِّكَ الْحُسْنَى عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا وَدَمَّرْنَا مَا كَانَ يَصْنَعُ فِرْعَوْنُ وَقَوْمُهُ وَمَا كَانُوا يَعْرِشُونَ} [الْأَعْرَافِ:137

(And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern and western regions of the land which We had blessed, and the good word of your Lord was fulfilled upon the Children of Israel because of their patience. And We destroyed what Pharaoh and his people had been making and what they had been building.) [Al-A’raf: 137]

Between the verse of Surat Al-Qasas and the verse of Surat Al-A’raf, more than 40 years passed, meaning that a completely different generation of the Children of Israel saw victory.

The point

Between each weakness and empowerment there is a stressful period called (trial) and it may be severe and long sometimes for several reasons:

1 - You have not learned from the lesson yet, so the scene is repeated over and over again until you know your enemy from your friend, your enemy is the devil and sometimes your inner self and sometimes a clear and obvious enemy but you considered him a friend so you suffer, suffer to the point of learning.

2- Sometimes because of the strength of your religion (it is firm), Satan fights you through his eight steps (that you disbelieve in God: and he finds you not disbelieving) (that you associate with God someone even for show: and he finds you not associating) so he does the next step and the next until he reaches the last step with you (creating discord between you and the believers). So if you reach it, know that Satan has tried with you repeatedly.

The scholars differed on how the Children of Israel inherited, and whether the intended inheritance was Egypt or the Levant

The first saying

The children of Israel returned to the land of Egypt and settled there

The second saying

They took possession of it and transferred what was in it and went with it to the Levant and settled there

The third saying

They took possession of the land of Egypt and its treasures and the cities of Pharaoh after that for a time in the era of David and others.

Al-Hasan said

The children of Israel returned to Egypt after the destruction of Pharaoh.

Muqatil said

 God Almighty returned the Children of Israel to Egypt after drowning Pharaoh and his people.

Abu Hafs Al-Nasafi narrated on the authority of Wahb who said

When they crossed the sea, Moses, peace be upon him, sent two great armies, each with twelve thousand men. Joshua bin Nun and Caleb bin Yoqna, who were the two whom God had bestowed His blessings upon, dug in to the cities of Pharaoh and his treasuries, which were at that time empty of their inhabitants. They had perished, and none remained except the women, children, the elderly, and the decrepit. They took their wealth of gold, silver, jewels, and goods, the amount of which only God Almighty knows. God Almighty gave them their homes and wealth as an inheritance, and that is what God Almighty says: Thus We caused the Children of Israel to inherit it. all of this was destroyed and their great and glorious glory in this world was taken away from them. The king, his entourage, his princes, and his soldiers perished, and nothing remained in the country of Egypt except the common people and the subjects.

Ibn Abd al-Hakam mentioned in “History of Egypt

Since that time, the women of Egypt have had power over their men, because the wives of princes and nobles married commoners below them, and so they had power over them. This has continued to be the custom of the women of Egypt to this day.

God Almighty’s promise to Moses, peace be upon him, after the salvation of the Children of Israel for 40 (days)

Allah says 

وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَى ثَلاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً... (الأعراف:142)

And We appointed for Moses thirty nights and completed them with ten, so the term of his Lord was completed as forty nights... (Al-A'raf: 142)

This appointment was to begin the revelation of the Torah after God saved his people, the Children of Israel, from slavery, and made them a free nation capable of carrying out what God had prescribed for them in terms of worship and the rules of transactions.

Sheikh Ibn Saadi said in his interpretation

When God completed His blessing upon them by saving them from their enemy and empowering them on earth, He, the Blessed and Exalted, wanted to complete His blessing upon them by sending down the Book in which there are legal rulings and acceptable beliefs. So He appointed thirty nights for Moses, and completed them with ten, so they became forty nights, so that Moses would prepare and get ready for God’s promise, and for its revelation to have a great place with them, and they would long for its revelation.

The question here is: Why did God promise his prophet Moses, and why did he say “night” and not “day”?

Sheikh Al-Shaarawy, may God have mercy on him, says in his thoughts: 

“...When religion talks about time, it always talks about the night. The reason for that is that you cannot determine time precisely by day. The sun rises, sets, and then rises again. So if you look at the sun’s disk, you cannot determine what time of the month we are in. Is it at the beginning, middle, or end? But if night comes, simply by looking at the moon, you can determine the time. If the moon is a crescent, we are at the beginning of the month. If it is a full moon, we are in the middle of it, and so on.” Al-Shaarawy adds, “There are precise measurements for the moon and measuring time in people’s customs; the average person can determine the time approximately by nights. A Bedouin in the desert will tell you: This moon is so-and-so night old.

In the logic of religion

We calculate everything by the onset of night.. This is the first night of Ramadan, in which we pray Tarawih.. and the night of Eid, in which Tarawih is not prayed.. and the night of the middle of Shaban.. and the night of Isra and Mi'raj.. and in all the standards of religion, night does not follow day except in one thing, which is the Day of Arafah.. so we do not say the Night of Arafah, but rather we say the Day of Arafah.. so the night is the beginning of time in religion.. and time with Allah lasts twelve months of one year.

The calf worship

Who made the calf?

The Samaritan

Who is the Samaritan?

His name was Micah, and it was said: Moses bin Zafar, and he was called the Samaritan in reference to a tribe of the Children of Israel called Samaria. He worked in the goldsmith profession, and lived among a people who worshipped the calf. When he saved with the Children of Israel from Pharaoh and his people, and they came upon a people who worshipped idols. He asked Moses, peace be upon him, to make them gods like them, as God Almighty said: (And We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and they came upon a people devoted to their idols. They said, “O Moses, make for us a god as they have gods.” He said, “Indeed, you are a people behaving ignorantly.”) And the Samaritan remembered that Gabriel, peace be upon him, was at the forefront of Pharaoh’s soldiers and led them into the sea, and he was riding on a horse. The Samaritan saw the tip of his hoof, so he took some of its trace and put it with him in a bag, and asked the children of Israel for gold and jewelry, and melted it, and threw the dirt he had carried with him on the melted gold, and made them a calf, and asked them to worship it, so it was a cause of their temptation. It was said: This calf makes a sound like a mooing when it enters The wind entered the hollow calf from the inside and reached its stomach, so the Children of Israel turned away from their religion and began to worship the calf.

Allah says 

(قالَ فَإِنّا قَد فَتَنّا قَومَكَ مِن بَعدِكَ وَأَضَلَّهُمُ السّامِرِيُّ* فَرَجَعَ موسى إِلى قَومِهِ غَضبانَ أَسِفًا قالَ يا قَومِ أَلَم يَعِدكُم رَبُّكُم وَعدًا حَسَنًا أَفَطالَ عَلَيكُمُ العَهدُ أَم أَرَدتُم أَن يَحِلَّ عَلَيكُم غَضَبٌ مِن رَبِّكُم فَأَخلَفتُم مَوعِدي)

(He said, "Indeed, We have tested your people after you, and the Samaritan has led them astray." So Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved. He said, "O my people, did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Has the covenant been prolonged for you? Or did you desire that the wrath of your Lord should descend upon you, so you broke my promise?")

The reaction of our master Moses to the worship of the Children of Israel

When Moses, peace be upon him, returned from meeting his Lord and found his people worshipping the calf, he became extremely angry and rebuked them and condemned what they had done in his absence. He also rebuked his brother Aaron, peace be upon him, for remaining silent about what the Children of Israel had done by worshipping the calf. Then he threatened the Samaritan with punishment in this world and the hereafter, and threw the calf into the sea. He ordered his people to worship God, the Most High, alone, with no partner.

Did Aaron - peace be upon him - let them worship the calf?

Then God Almighty mentioned Aaron's - peace be upon him - admonishment to them, but they insisted on worshipping the calf until his brother Moses - peace be upon him - returned to them.

What did Moses do when he learned that the Israelites worshipped the calf?

 God Almighty said:

وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَىٰ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ غَضْبَانَ أَسِفًا قَالَ بِئْسَمَا خَلَفْتُمُونِي مِن بَعْدِي ۖ أَعَجِلْتُمْ أَمْرَ رَبِّكُمْ ۖ وَأَلْقَى الْأَلْوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأْسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُ إِلَيْهِ ۚ قَالَ ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَكَادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي فَلَا تُشْمِتْ بِيَ الْأَعْدَاءَ وَلَا تَجْعَلْنِي مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ (150) 

And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "Evil is that which you have done to me after me. Did you hasten the command of your Lord?" And he threw down the tablets and seized his brother by the head, dragging him toward him. He said, "O son of my mother, indeed the people oppressed me and almost killed me. So do not let my enemies rejoice over me and do not place me with the wrongdoing people." (150)

Then Moses - peace be upon him - burned the calf and threw it into the sea

He said to his people: This is not your God, and that God Almighty is the true God who alone must be worshipped. He knows everything, and He has counted everything, and not an atom’s weight in the heavens or on the earth is hidden from Him. God Almighty mentioned this in His saying: (Your God is only God, other than whom there is no god. He encompasses all things in knowledge.)

The repentance of the children of Israel from worshipping the calf

After the Children of Israel confessed their mistakes, their prophet Moses, peace be upon him, asked them to choose seventy of their best men, and asked them to go to God Almighty and repent to Him for what they had done, and to ask Him to repent for them and their people from the Children of Israel. He asked them to fast and purify their clothes, and he went out with them to Mount Sinai for an appointment that his Lord had set for him. When Moses, peace be upon him, spoke to his Lord, they asked him to listen to the words of God Almighty, so the people entered the cloud and fell down in prostration, and they heard the words of Moses, peace be upon him, with his Lord, and they asked Moses, peace be upon him, to see God Almighty, so the thunderbolt took them and they all died (the 70 men).

So Moses - peace be upon him - sought help from Allah - the Most High

So he returned their souls to him, and asked him to repent for them, so he said: No, unless they kill themselves. And God Almighty mentioned some of that in His saying: (And when Moses said to his people, O my people, indeed you have wronged yourselves by taking the calf, then, repent to your Creator and kill yourselves. That is better for you in the sight of your Creator. So He pardoned you. Indeed, it is He who is the Accepter of repentance, the Merciful.) The scholars of interpretation preferred that their killing of themselves was before God Almighty repented of them, because God Almighty mentioned after that in the verses that He repented of them, and that the command to kill themselves was abrogated out of mercy from God Almighty towards them.

The point

1- Sometimes or always, an emotional person is cleaner internally than a calm, mean person. So our master Moses, peace be upon him, took his brother Aaron’s beard, peace be upon him, and pulled him towards him, indicating a kind of fear for the faith, firmness, determination, and not being lenient in leadership.

2- Leadership with firmness, or leadership with tolerance: Which is better? If they were to come together, they would lead in the best possible way, and if they were to separate, each one of them would be less than the other (Moses and Aaron), peace be upon them.

The story of the children of Israel with the tyrannical people

Allah says 

وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوْمِ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ فِيكُمْ أَنْبِيَاءَ وَجَعَلَكُمْ مُلُوكًا وَآتَاكُمْ مَا لَمْ يُؤْتِ أَحَدًا مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ 

And remember when Moses said to his people, "O my people, remember the favor of Allah upon you when He made among you prophets and made you kings and gave you that which He had not given to anyone in the worlds."

When God Almighty saved the Children of Israel from being enslaved by Pharaoh and his entourage (the Copts: the inhabitants of Egypt) and they passed the sea with the other side, some of them or most of them were led astray by the Samaritan and worshipped the calf, and the matter ended with God Almighty accepting the repentance of 70 men from the Children of Israel who went with Moses, peace be upon him, to repent, and he was one of the best believing men from the Children of Israel. Now: the rulings began to descend upon the Children of Israel as Muhammad and his companions, may God bless him and grant him peace, after the migration to Medina: So Moses asked them based on a divine command from God Almighty: And the first thing he commanded them with (gratitude and thanks) for God’s blessings upon them, as he said to them:

Allah says 

اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ فِيكُمْ أَنْبِيَاءَ وَجَعَلَكُمْ مُلُوكًا

Remember the favor of Allah upon you, when He made among you prophets and made you kings

Free, in control of your affairs. What were you, O children of Israel, in Egypt? What were you during the time of Pharaoh? Weren't you slaves? Weren't you subjected to oppression? Weren't you humiliated? The Copts controlled you. You did not control your affairs. Now, God has blessed you and you have become in control of your affairs. You have become free. He destroyed your enemy and drowned Pharaoh and his soldiers. Therefore, you have become kings. You have become free, in control of your affairs and you are able to establish your religion. You are kings. Some scholars, such as Ibn Abbas, said: 

And He made you kings

He has a servant, a wife and a home. He said: “The woman and the servant. If a man from the Children of Israel had a wife, a servant and a home, he was called a king.” [Tafsir Ibn Kathir: 3/73] Muslim, may God have mercy on him, narrated in his Sahih that a man asked Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas, saying: Are we not among the poor immigrants? Abdullah said to him: Do you have a wife to whom you can take refuge? He said: Yes. He said: Do you have a home to live in? He said: Yes. He said: Then you are among the rich. He said: also I have a servant. He said: Then you are among the kings. Narrated by Muslim: 2979

And He has given you what He has not given to anyone else in the worlds

That is, at that time they were the most honorable nation. There was no nation at the time of the Children of Israel more honorable than the Children of Israel. It was the nation of prophets, the nation of leaders, the nation of preachers, the nation of scholars and worshippers, despite their crookedness, deviation, perversion, stubbornness, rebellion, immorality, and deceit. But among them were leaders, martyrs, prophets, scholars, and virtuous people. They were the best people of their time, the best in the sight of God, the most perfect in law, the most upright in method, the greatest in kingdom, and the most abundant in provisions.

Allah says 

يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنْقَلِبُوا خَاسِرِينَ 

O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back and [thus] become losers

He ordered jihad and not to give the enemy the upper hand or retreat and surrender, for if you did: you will return from where you came with loss instead of victory and salvation.

Where the incitement to jihad began to enter Jerusalem, which the giants had seized, so Moses ordered the children of Israel to enter Jerusalem, and storm the city against the enemies, and he gave them the good news of victory, but they refused, disobeyed, and violated his order, and rebelled against him, so they were punished by wandering for forty years, not knowing how to get out

Allah says 

قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى إِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْمًا جَبَّارِينَ وَإِنَّا لَنْ نَدْخُلَهَا حَتَّى يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا فَإِنْ يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا فَإِنَّا دَاخِلُونَ 

They said, "O Moses, indeed within it is a tyrannical people, and we will never enter it until they leave it. But if they leave it, then we will enter."

They were cowardly and afraid: They said, "O Moses, indeed there are a tyrannical people in it. We will not enter the Holy House until they leave the Holy House first. If they leave, we will enter." This is a kind of cowardice and failure to take up the task of jihad entrusted to them. Their prophet Moses, peace be upon him, did not offer them a choice, but rather gave them an order, and they refused. They did not hesitate, but rather refused, or set a condition for their compliance with the order. Is it expected that the enemies would leave the country without a price? Is it expected that the enemies would leave and surrender the city to them? This is bad manners towards their prophet Moses, peace be upon him. This is due to their cowardice, lack of faith, loss of their wisdom, and deprivation of success.

Allah says 

قَالَ رَجُلَانِ مِنَ الَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمَا ادْخُلُوا عَلَيْهِمُ الْبَابَ فَإِذَا دَخَلْتُمُوهُ فَإِنَّكُمْ غَالِبُونَ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَتَوَكَّلُوا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ 

Two men from among those who feared, upon whom Allah had bestowed favor, said, "Enter upon them through the gate, and when you have entered it, you will surely be predominant. And upon Allah rely, if you should be believers

In this shameful scene of the Children of Israel: Only two men who recognized God’s blessings upon them in their release from slavery to Pharaoh and his entourage, and that they had taken control of their affairs and become free, stood up and said to the rest of the slackening Children of Israel: Enter upon them through the gate, and when you enter it, you will be victorious, and upon God rely, if you are believers.

Allah says 

قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى إِنَّا لَنْ نَدْخُلَهَا أَبَدًا مَا دَامُوا فِيهَا فَاذْهَبْ أَنْتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلَا إِنَّا هَاهُنَا قَاعِدُونَ 

They said, "O Moses, we will never enter it as long as they are within it. So go, you and your Lord, and fight. Indeed, we are sitting right here

Bad manners rose and his voice rose more and more, when the two brave men among them urged them, so they thought and decided that they would never enter it, as long as the giants were in it, then the voices rose in bad manners: Go, you and your Lord, and fight, we are sitting here

Allah says 

قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي لَا أَمْلِكُ إِلَّا نَفْسِي وَأَخِي فَافْرُقْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ الْقَوْمِ الْفَاسِقِينَ 

He said, "My Lord, indeed I have no control over except myself and my brother, so separate us from the wicked people

Moses, peace be upon him, stood up to his Lord and said, “I have no power except for myself and my brother (Aaron), peace be upon them both, then he prayed to separate them from the wicked people: those who disobey. It is said that the date has become wicked when the date is separated from its shell. The female mountain mouse is called “Fuwaisqa,” and she has two hiding places: a hidden hill in which she hides her young and her prey, and an empty hill in front that the vermin are deceived by and do not find anything in it. Thus, she is mean. The wicked is called by this name because he disobeys with meanness on his part. And God is Most High and All-Knowing.

Allah says 

قَالَ فَإِنَّهَا مُحَرَّمَةٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً يَتِيهُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَلَا تَأْسَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْفَاسِقِينَ 

He said, "Then it is forbidden to them for forty years while they wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the wicked people

It is said: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They did what they wanted, and they had freedom of choice, but they did not have the choice of the consequence: the consequence was wandering in the land - it is said in the beloved Sinai in the land of Egypt - they could not get out of the wandering and they never reached a final destination.

But why exactly forty years?

Until a completely new generation emerges, the generation in the past was every 40 years, so they emerge with a fixed belief and do not speak to God Almighty in this way, and they know the blessing of God in leaving the wilderness and do not deny it as they deny the blessing of leaving the slavery of Pharaoh and his entourage, and if you think about it: it is a harsh punishment: a person travels for 3 days on a journey in which he stops at transit stations and despite this he says I am very tired on this journey, so what about: wandering for 40 years, they do not stay in a place except that they leave it after that, there is no stability, even a new generation grew up in this wilderness.

Then Allah the Almighty addresses Moses - peace be upon him -So do not grieve over the wicked people

So what is grief? Grief is intense sadness that leads its owner to physical illnesses. God Almighty said (And he said, “Oh, my grief over Joseph!” And his eyes became white from grief). Grief led him to an eye disease that led to blindness.... And God Almighty said something similar to that to Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace (So let not your soul perish over them in regret), grief after grief that afflicts you with a physical illness. And God is Most High and All-Knowing.

The conditions of the children of Israel in the wanderings

God forbade them from the village they refused to enter for forty years, and not only deprivation but also wandering in the desert. They go out in the morning looking for a way out, and sunset does not come until they find themselves in the place from which they began searching, finding no way out of the desert.

Meaning that they are two punishments, forbidden to them

The first punishment

Forty years they will wander in the desert

The second punishment

This generation will never enter it, forbidden to them This is a punishment, and this generation will wander in the desert for forty years, and Ibn Jarir, may God have mercy on him, chose it

Here are several glimpses

They can enter it after forty

 but during this period they will remain lost in the land

 This does not mean that the entire generation will not enter it. They will be prevented from entering it for forty years, and then they may enter it. Rather, some of them entered it based on this statement. This generation

They were accustomed to slavery, so they were not prepared to fight, and were cowardly when confronted, so it was necessary to eliminate this generation that had rotted and become old, and there was no longer any benefit in reforming it, and they wandered in the desert, and Moses and the Children of Israel died in the wilderness, and thus it was wise for that generation to wander in the desert until it perished and died, so that another generation would emerge that was raised in the desert with its severity, its might, and its difficult circumstances, so that a generation would emerge that could confront, without the humiliation of the fathers, but rather would be raised in this harsh environment, and would be able to carry out the mission, and indeed after Moses, his servant and slave Joshua took over the leadership, and God inspired him, so he became a prophet, and led the second generation of the Children of Israel, leading them to victory.

Allah says 

۞ وَإِذِ اسْتَسْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ فَقُلْنَا اضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ الْحَجَرَ ۖ فَانفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا ۖ قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ۖ كُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا مِن رِّزْقِ اللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ (60) وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَا مُوسَىٰ لَن نَّصْبِرَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامٍ وَاحِدٍ فَادْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُخْرِجْ لَنَا مِمَّا تُنبِتُ الْأَرْضُ مِن بَقْلِهَا وَقِثَّائِهَا وَفُومِهَا وَعَدَسِهَا وَبَصَلِهَا ۖ قَالَ أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ الَّذِي هُوَ أَدْنَىٰ بِالَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌ ۚ اهْبِطُوا مِصْرًا فَإِنَّ لَكُم مَّا سَأَلْتُمْ ۗ وَضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الذِّلَّةُ وَالْمَسْكَنَةُ وَبَاءُوا بِغَضَبٍ مِّنَ اللَّهِ ۗ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَكْفُرُونَ بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَيَقْتُلُونَ النَّبِيِّينَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ ۗ ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا عَصَوا وَّكَانُوا يَعْتَدُونَ (61)

And when Moses asked for water for his people, We said, “Strike the stone with your staff.” Then twelve springs gushed forth from it. Each people knew Their drink: Eat and drink from the provision of Allah and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption. (60) And remember when you said, “O Moses, we will never be satisfied with one kind of food, so call upon your Lord to produce for us from what the earth grows of its herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its lentils, and its onions, He said, "Would you exchange that which is better for that which is less? Go down to Egypt, and indeed, you will have what you asked for." And humiliation and poverty were stamped upon them, and they incurred wrath from Allah. That was because they disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were transgressors. (61

God sent down upon them manna and quails. As for manna, it was said that it was like gum and its taste was like honey that fell on trees. It was also said that it was turmeric, and it was also said that it was thin bread, and it was also said that it was honey that was sent down to every person in a saa’

As for the quail It is a bird that looks like a quail, They said, "Where is the drink?" So Moses commanded that he strike the stone with his staff, and twelve springs gushed forth from it, one spring for each tribe. They said, "Where is the shade?" So the cloud shaded them. They said, "Where is the clothing? Their garments grew longer with them, and no garment of theirs was torn. Then they said, "O Moses, we will never be patient with one kind of food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from what the earth grows of its herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its lentils, and its onions." He said, "Would you exchange that which is better for that which is less good? Go down to Egypt, for you will have what you asked for." So when they came out of the wilderness, the manna and the quails were removed from them.

The point

1 - Despite God’s anger at them for not obeying His command to fight their enemy and the enemy of God, He did not deprive them of the types of food, drink, shelter, and clothing that they needed. If this indicates anything, it indicates that the world is worth nothing to God, as He feeds the believer and the unbeliever, the pious and the wicked from it. However, when it came to punishment, it was an unexpected punishment: not in the basics (food and drink), but in human dignity. A person who does not leave his home and remains lost is a type of human dignity that is one of the rights of man today. One of the rights of man is (the right to own a home).

2- The manna (sweet-tasting food) was enough to satisfy the body’s need for calories, and the quail (roasted bird: quail or other) satisfied the body’s basic needs for iron and the known needs of meat, except that it is easy to digest, so it does not require leaning for a period after feeding like lamb meat, for example... their needs are met, and despite this: they tended towards beans and lentils... etc. which indicates that a person’s eyes are not satisfied except by dust, no matter how much he takes from this life, he seeks another and another and another

3 - Allah the Almighty says about the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) (You think they are all together, but their hearts are diverse). One spring of water would have been sufficient, but when hearts differ, needs differ with it. This is true of the Jews. Are Muslims better off today? If hearts were not different, many things would have been sufficient for us. However, overnight, since the sixties of the last century, we have become subject to the same words of Allah the Almighty (You think they are all together, but their hearts are diverse)

The story of slaughtering the cow

The basic of the story of slaughtering a cow

A wealthy man from the Children of Israel was killed, and the Children of Israel were a small, closed community, so any crime or murder of a wealthy person was a matter of public opinion, and the Israelites passed on the news and were confused about who killed the victim, and their minds turned to everyone, except for the real killer of this victim, so they resorted to Moses - peace be upon him - to ask his Lord - and when Moses asked his Lord, the Blessed and Exalted, He ordered him to slaughter a cow, and it was a surprise to the Children of Israel: What is the connection between a cow and a wealthy person killed? And the mockery and excessive stubbornness of the Children of Israel began in revealing the specifications of the cow until God showed them the severity of the descriptions as a result of their stubbornness, arrogance and mockery of God’s rulings... to the details

And when Moses said to his people, "Indeed, God commands you to slaughter a cow

After asking them to reveal the truth about who the real killer is

They said, "Do you take us in mockery

In fact: They have a temporary right to say that, but the idea of talking to their prophet in this way is unacceptable. He cannot be sarcastic in his speech, nor can he be a prophet of the first determined messengers with these morals.

He said: I seek refuge in God from being among the ignorant

A polite response that does not suit their stubbornness and sarcasm.

They said, “Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is

The first stubborn questions that made God Almighty be stubborn with them in the specifications

He said, "He says, 'It is a cow neither old nor virgin, but between the two. So do what you are commanded

Moses’ tone - peace be upon him - began to take on a somewhat sharp tone (So do what you are commanded). The most important thing: she was a cow, neither old nor unmarried, but somewhere in between.

They said, "Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what her color is." He said, "Indeed, He says, 'She is a yellow cow, bright yellow in color, pleasing to the onlookers

A new stubborn question: Moses - peace be upon him - said on the tongue of his Lord: He says that it is a cow with three characteristics in terms of color:

A - Yellow

B - Bright in color, as if it were (phosphorous)

C - Pleases the eyes

The matter here is different: this is a murder, and a matter of public opinion. Why does God Almighty want the cow to be a specifically bright yellow color that cannot be forgotten, and that pleases the onlookers: those looking at it during the investigation of a murder case... something truly strange.

They said, “Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is. Indeed, the cows seem alike to us, and indeed, if God wills, we will be guided

This is the height of obstinacy and procrastination in implementing the command of God Almighty

He said, "He says, 'She is a cow, neither trained to plow the earth nor irrigate the crops, sound, without blemish

That is, it is a cow that is not humiliated in plowing the land, nor watering the crops, and it has no defects

They said, "Now you have come with the truth." So they slaughtered her, but they were not about to do it

Was everything that Moses - peace be upon him - brought before that not true? Yes, but it is the nature of the Children of Israel that declares mockery and declares rebellion against the words and rulings of God Almighty

And when you killed a person and disputed over it, and Allah was to bring out what you were concealing

That is, you pushed the killer among yourselves, each pushing him away from himself to another, then God Almighty comments on the matter in the end (And God will bring out what you were concealing). That is, this theatrical event - if the expression is correct - was not in vain. God forbid that God would do that, for God Almighty respects His servants unless they mock or make mistakes, so He disciplines them for such actions and then treats them kindly once again.

So We said, “Strike him with part of it.” Thus does God bring the dead to life and show you His signs that you may understand

When this cow that pleases the onlookers was slaughtered: they struck the victim with its tongue, or with another part, God knows, and God Almighty showed them (the dead being brought back to life before their eyes) and the victim pointed when he was brought back to life to the real killer who was the victim’s nephew, meaning that the killer killed his uncle for the sake of inheritance, and from this noble verse the scholars of jurisprudence derived the rule (there is no inheritance for a killer) because he did that, meaning killing for the sake of inheritance, so he is punished in the opposite of what he planned and executed.

The points

1- Why does Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, always and forever use animals, insects, birds and other things that are very simple in our view, while He, the Almighty, the Exalted, uses them to support honorable prophets and honorable believers? What message does Allah, the Almighty, want to convey to us through this? A dove shaded a cave where our master Muhammad and his companion lived, a spider, here a cow, in another surah a hoopoe bringing great news: Does Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, want to teach us two things from this, which are:

A - We live in a cosmic system and do not live individually, and only He knows the soldiers of your Lord. The soldier of God may be the smallest human being or something else that you can underestimated with your vision and creative insight.

B - Does God Almighty teach us: Use animals in intelligence, they have a benefit, and the West today: is fond of using animals in intelligence, either by implanting a war chip in their heads to spy, like whales or other Animals, of course, which are used directly in some prestigious European armies. An example of animals used in wars, for example, but not limited to: mules - wild buffalo - parrots and many others.

2 - The science of colors: Have you noticed that God Almighty, in a matter of public opinion, wants a bright yellow cow that pleases the onlookers, and it is the matter of killing one of the Israeli elite? Is there a reason for that? Read with me:

From the psychology of the color yellow

Warm colors stir feelings of positive energy, happiness and optimism, and therefore are used in emoji to stimulate the release of serotonin

The Chinese and Egyptians used color therapy in ancient times, known as Chromotherapy, which was developed over time and became a method of alternative therapy called colorology. Within the framework of color therapy methods, the color yellow is used to calm and purify the body and stimulate the nerves

 Generating new ideas

Using a yellow-light lamp, while preparing for a test or working on projects, can help a person become more able to analyze or find solutions through creative processes or create a strategy or solutions to problems.

The positive effects of the color yellow on the human brain include the following:

- Strong analytical thinking

- Increased levels of mental activity

- Increased sense of awareness

The negative effects

On the contrary, the color yellow can cause negative effects on the brain of some, as follows:

- Increased levels of irritation

- Increased levels of anger

Have you analyzed with me the choice of God Almighty to use the bright yellow color at the scene of a crime, which pleases the onlookers for a while, then the yellow color mixes with the dark red color of blood (the blood of the slaughter) and the elite and others from the Children of Israel are all watching this scene. Does God Almighty want the following from that:

A - Using color science and psychology in intelligence? For those who do not know: It is widely used in the West.

B - Investigation and knowledge of the news are the basis for reaching the truth: It is not possible for them to reach the specifications of this cow easily, rather everyone searches and searches everywhere until it was said that they found it with one of them. And when he knew of their urgent need for it, he forced them to pay its price in gold, and not what is paid for as it is taken without prior payment for it.

C - The suspicion of reviving the dead in the West today and its extreme complexity, for those who do not know anything about it, is the science of cryogenics, which is a way to revive the dead - if they are correct in their expression - very complex and not guaranteed. Therefore, if God Almighty had not spoken in His final book that was revealed to our Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, with all this actual ease about reviving the dead by God Almighty, someone would have said: They preceded God Almighty in something, and God Almighty says (We have neglected nothing in the Book).

D - The real killer: All the people during and before the investigations did not identify him at all, which is evidence of his cunning and malice, and another evidence that you can deceive some people some of the time, but to deceive everyone in one area, this is impossible in this life (and God will bring out what you conceal)

Do not be like those who harmed Moses

Allah says 

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لَا تَكُونُواْ كَٱلَّذِينَ ءَاذَوۡاْ مُوسَىٰ فَبَرَّأَهُ ٱللَّهُ مِمَّا قَالُواْۚ وَكَانَ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَجِيهٗا (69)يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَقُولُواْ قَوۡلٗا سَدِيدٗا (70) يُصۡلِحۡ لَكُمۡ أَعۡمَٰلَكُمۡ وَيَغۡفِرۡ لَكُمۡ ذُنُوبَكُمۡۗ وَمَن يُطِعِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ فَقَدۡ فَازَ فَوۡزًا عَظِيمًا

O you who have believed, do not be like those who harmed Moses, but Allah cleared him of what they said, and he was honorable in the sight of Allah. (69)O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. (70) He will amend for you your deeds and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly achieved a great attainment.

The call to the believers, the believers of the Children of Israel in the time of Moses, peace be upon him, or the believers of the Muslims? No, rather the believers of the Muslims, that is, me, you, and us if we are believers, and those before us and those who will come after us: Yes, O Lord, the beloved call and what comes after it, our master Abdullah bin Masoud, may God be pleased with him and satisfy him, when he was walking in the markets, if he heard the Almighty’s saying, O you who believe, he stop and not complete his journey in the market until he heard what God wanted from the believers, and would you do that? More importantly: Who were those who harmed Moses, peace be upon him, his people, the Children of Israel, certainly? And why? Was it because he had a harsh and difficult nature, or because he used to command them and forbid them, or because of the virtues and characteristics that they were jealous of? We have learned in this life that some people do not hate you for your faults, but for the virtues that God has blessed you with... Let us begin to learn the meanings of the noble verses.

O you who have believed, do not be like those who abused Moses

O believers, O Muslims, do not be (this is a prohibition) like the Jews who harmed their prophet Moses, peace be upon him. A third of the Quran talks about the Children of Israel and their stories. Why? Certainly because they will invade the world at the end of time to complete their road map from the Nile to the Euphrates, and the Muslims will suffer a lot of harm, true, but is that all? No, rather your characteristics should not be like their characteristics, for in the supplication: Our Lord, do not test us with what we hate in others, is that not so? So what is the story then, how did they harm Moses, peace be upon him: Is it their stubbornness with them and their failure to respond to the calls of faith? No

The story in brief: The Children of Israel used to bathe naked, and Moses, peace be upon him, used to cover himself a lot and hide his body. Some people said, “He is leprous or has a disease.” One day, he went to bathe in a spring in the land of Ash-Sham, and he put his clothes on a rock. The rock ran away with his clothes, and Moses followed him naked, saying, “My clothes are a rock, my clothes are a rock,” until he reached a group of the Children of Israel (the elite). They looked at him, and he was the best of them in character and the most just of them in appearance, but he was not what they said about him.

Now,

 How many times have you come across a story like this? How many times have you spread news about a Muslim saying that he is such and such and such, and you spread the news with them without confirming, verifying, or understanding, just a strong love for spreading news because of your hatred for this person (a Muslim in the first place)

So Allah cleared him of what they said.

Allah - the Most High - has things that are more amazing than imagination in acquitting believers. He says, “Indeed, Allah defends those who believe.” Do you trust Him? Do you trust that He will one day defend you in a case? When does a judge defend a case when it is brought to court? When is the case brought to the Constitutional Court, for example, when it is a major case? When does a prominent judge volunteer to defend the accused? When he feels innocent or has a material purpose, for example. So when will Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, defend a poor servant like you and me? The most important thing is that God acquitted him of what they said, and he was honorable in the sight of God.

The person's face: he became of a prestigious rank and status. The person's face: he honored him. He made him stand out in front of those present. Why is the face specifically the one that God Almighty spoke about? You are an expert today in what is happening in the West and perhaps especially among the Children of Israel in terms of the types of prestigious and leveled disguise, as they put on their faces a silicone mask that is the face and chest, and completely changes the appearance from one person to another, but the natural face that God Almighty created us with is an identity, it is you, it is what distinguishes you from others, neither the name nor the body nor the haircut distinguishes you from others, if you noticed, all Western women and some Arabs have the same shape and features with the same haircut and the same body size, if you see them from behind you cannot differentiate between them at all, what actually differentiates one person from another is the shape of the face that he is known for, not the one who underwent plastic surgery on it.

I will tell you a true story

There was an old American president: He asked his assistants to bring him a very qualified person to help him in a special mission, so they brought him a picture of a very qualified person, so he rejected him, and when they asked him why he rejected him, he said: I don't like his face, so they complained and said: What is his fault of his face? He said: After forty, a person is responsible for the of face before forty... that is, the first forty of your life is when you build the face that you walk with among people.

I will tell you a story about the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, also

When he entered Medina as an immigrant, what was the first thing the Jewish rabbis said about him? I knew that this was not a lie, And it was after forty as well,.

We return to the story of Moses, peace be upon him

Prophets do not receive prophethood until after the age of forty, and God Almighty says: He was honorable in the sight of God: he had a distinguished face, but they hated him and called out to each other about faults that were not in him at all.

Instead of this behavior

 What, O Lord? (69) O you who have believed, fear God and speak words of appropriate justice. What is appropriate speech then? Correct, sound, wholesome • He paid off his money: he did good work with it • He paid off the debt: he paid what he owed So what do you imagine is the right saying then?

My brother, our deeds before Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, are not complete, but rather are deficient due to backbiting, gossip, envy that eats away at good deeds, and the shaver: which is the hatred that does not shave hair but shaves your good deeds. We are in great need of Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, to rectify our deeds, and not only that, but He forgives us our sins. Who has never sinned and who has only good deeds except the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly achieved a great attainment. And the matter is over.

The death of Moses - peace be upon him -

When did Moses (peace be upon him) die?

He died - peace be upon him - in the wilderness three years after his brother Aaron - peace be upon him - and he was one hundred and twenty years old, and it was said one hundred and eighteen.

The last years of Moses, peace be upon him

The biographers and historians mentioned the matter of Moses - peace be upon him - and his people after God Almighty ordered him to march with them to the Holy House. They mentioned that when they were near it, Moses - peace be upon him - chose twelve men from their tribes to bring him news of the tyrants who were living in the Holy House. After they went where he ordered them, a tyrant met them, so one of them took them to his wife and told her that they claimed to intend to kill them, and he wanted to step on them with his foot. She prevented him and asked him to release them so that they could tell their people what they saw. The twelve men agreed to conceal this from the Children of Israel. Ten of them broke the covenant and told their people what they saw, and two of them concealed the news from the Children of Israel and only told Moses and Aaron - peace be upon them.

When Moses, peace be upon him, asked them to enter the Holy Land

They refrained from walking for fear of the tyrannical people. God Almighty said: (O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned to you and do not turn back and [thus] become losers. They said, “O Moses, indeed within it is a tyrannical people, and we will never enter it until they leave it. But if they leave it, then we will enter.”)

Then Moses - peace be upon him - became angry with them and cursed them

So God Almighty punished them by wandering for forty years. Moses, peace be upon him, regretted not bringing food with them, so God Almighty sent down manna and quails upon them

The narrations confirm that Moses, peace be upon him

Moses, peace be upon him, remained during the period of wandering, commanding his people to do good and forbidding them from evil. Then his brother Aaron, peace be upon him, died in the wilderness.

The narrations of the death of Moses - peace be upon him -

There are many narrations that explain how Moses (peace be upon him) died

The first narration

Among them is the narration of Abu Hurairah - may God be pleased with him - in which he mentions that God Almighty sent the Angel of Death to Moses - peace be upon him - and when he came to him, he slapped him and put out his eye. The Angel of Death returned to God Almighty and informed him that his prophet did not want death. God Almighty restored his sight and told him to return to Him and tell him to put his hand on a bull, and that for every hair that his hand covered, he would have an increase in his lifespan by a year. He said to him: Then what? He said: Death. So he chose death and asked his Lord to bring him close to the Holy Land, a stone’s throw away, because of the honor and virtue in it. He did not ask him to be close to the Holy House, for fear that people would be tempted by him.

The scholars have said many things about the issue of Moses (peace be upon him) slapping the Angel of Death

The first saying

Moses - peace be upon him - did not know the Angel of Death because he came to him in the form of a man and entered his house without his permission, and wanted to defend himself, so he slapped him and gouged out his eye. This is the statement of Imam Abu Bakr bin Khuzaymah.

The second saying

Moses - peace be upon him - was quick to anger, and when he got angry, he would lift the hair of his body: his clothes, This was the reason for the Angel of Death to strike him, and this is what Al-Qurtubi reported. Ibn Al-Arabi explained that this is not true of the prophets.

The third saying

The prophets - peace be upon them - have a distinction over the rest of humanity when it comes to death; they are given a choice when they die, and when the Angel of Death came to him, he did not give him a choice, so he slapped him and gouged out his eye as a test for him, because he did not give him a choice. What indicates the validity of this statement is that when he gave him a choice between death and life, he chose death, and Al-Qurtubi said this.

The second narration 

of his death is that the Angel of Death came to him and said to him: Answer your Lord, meaning death. So Moses - peace be upon him - slapped him on his eye and gouged it out for him. This is in the hadith of the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace -: (The Angel of Death came to Moses to take his soul and said to him: Answer your Lord. So Moses slapped the Angel of Death on the eye and gouged out his eye.)

The third narration

 The narration of Imam Al-Baghawi: One day, Moses, peace be upon him, went out and passed by a group of angels who were digging a beautiful grave, because of the greenery and joy in it. He asked them: For whom are you digging this grave? They answered: For a servant who is honored by his Lord. He said to them: This servant has a high status with his Lord. The angels informed him that it would be him. Moses, peace be upon him, agreed to that, so he lay down in it, then he died.

After the death of Moses - peace be upon him

God Almighty appointed Joshua bin Nun, the young man of Moses - peace be upon them - as his successor over the Children of Israel after the death of Moses - peace be upon him - and after the period of wandering had ended, he went out with them heading to the Holy House.

The entry into the Holy Land by the hand of God’s Prophet Joshua bin Nun - peace be upon him -

God commanded them to enter the Holy Land and promised them victory, but they refused to enter and responded by saying: {They said, “O Moses, we will never enter it as long as they are within it. So go, you and your Lord, and fight. Indeed, we are sitting right here.”} (Al-Ma’idah: 24). So they incurred God’s wrath and were punished with displacement and loss for a period of forty years.

After the period of torment had passed and they had left the wilderness

God commanded his prophet Joshua bin Nun, peace be upon him, to resume the fighting to conquer the Holy Land and defeat its people. Joshua, peace be upon him, gathered those who remained of his people and fought with them for four days, until they achieved victory, and God bestowed upon them the conquest.

After the war ended

God inspired His Prophet Joshua, peace be upon him, to enter the Holy Land through its gate as humble conquerors of God, grateful to Him for His blessings and favors, and submissive to Him in the hour of victory and supremacy

The divine command came to the people of Joshua, peace be upon him, to enter the city prostrating to God, seeking His forgiveness for the sins they had committed

Despite their sins, they regretted their refusal to fight in the first battle - during the time of Moses, peace be upon him - with a divine promise of goodness and the blessing of allowing the good things of those lands. God Almighty said: {And when We said, "Enter this city and eat from it wherever you wish in abundance and enter the gate bowing down and say, 'Forgive us.' We will forgive you your sins and will increase the benefactores"} (Al-Baqarah: 58), and God Almighty said: {And when it was said to them, "Dwell in this city and eat from it wherever you wish and say, 'Forgive us.' And enter the gate bowing down. We will forgive you your sins and will increase the benefactores"} (Al-A'raf)

But they disobeyed what they were commanded to say and do

But instead of prostrating to God, they entered the city crawling on their backsides, and instead of saying “forgiveness” as God had commanded them, they said “a grain in a hair,” which is the height of evil and contempt for the status of God Almighty. They gained nothing from this ugly act and heinous statement except that they deserved God’s wrath and punishment, so He sent down upon them a punishment from heaven as a punishment for their immorality and misguidance, in addition to what awaits them on the Day of Resurrection of the punishment of Hell.

The point 

1 - There were righteous people among the people, but the punishment did not include them because they did their duty of denouncing evil. Allah the Almighty said: {And among the people of Moses was a community who guided with the truth and thereby did justice} (Al-A`raf: 159)

2 - The story indicates what the behavior of the conquerors should be, from humility to Allah and not being arrogant and haughty, as was the case with our Prophet - may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him - when he entered Mecca with his head lowered so that his chin almost touched his mount.

3 - The wrath of Allah: It is the plague, and they used as evidence the saying of the Prophet - may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him -: (This pain - meaning the plague - is a punishment or the remainder of the torment with which people were tormented before you) narrated by Muslim, and there is no clear indication in the texts and traces to specify what is meant, and whatever the type of torment was, there is no doubt that it was severe and commensurate with the enormity of the crime they committed.

4 - The Jews mention that they entered the Holy Land from the direction of the Jordan River.

5 - Rebelling against God’s commands and mocking the words of God Almighty is the business of the Jews, so why do some Muslims do that when they hear anything about religion? They and the Jews are the same in their bad morals.

We are suffice with this amount of tell the story of the life of the Children of Israel